building a specific driver in kernel src tree

[Jeff Kirsher]

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 23:05, sri <bskmohan at gmail.com> wrote:
> the config had it as CONFIG_E1000=y
> Does =y or =m make any difference?
>
> still not working.
>

If you have CONFIG_E1000=y, it will build the e1000 driver into the
kernel binary and not as a separate module.  If you want the e1000
driver to build as a module, you will need to have CONFIG_E1000=m.

> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 22:49, sri <bskmohan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > As part of learning, I have added few debug statements to the code at
>> > drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c (e1000_probe function).
>> > Now to compile this, am doing make -C
>> > /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5PAE/build
>> > M=`pwd` modules under drivers/net/e1000 dir.
>> >
>> > That is not compiling anything. But the same thing when I do in
>> > drivers/net/e1000e, it is compiling and creating e1000e.ko file.
>> >
>>
>> Check your kernel config file (which is .config) to make sure that
>> CONFIG_E1000=m
>>
>> Then you should be able to run ` make drivers/net/e1000` to build the
>> e1000 driver as a module
>>
>> > Any help on how to get e1000.ko?
>> >
>> > --Sri
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>>
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>> Cheers,
>> Jeff
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Cheers,
Jeff