building a specific driver in kernel src tree

[sri]

Thank you. Am trying to compile the whole kernel again with CONFIG_E1000=m.

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Jeff Kirsher
<jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>wrote:

> 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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> >> Jeff
> >
> >
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