How to test a syscall prior to compiling the kernel

[Augusto Mecking Caringi]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Dipanjan Das <mail.dipanjan.das at gmail.com>
wrote:

> What I tried to mean is NOT to test the syscall after the modified kernel
> is compiled and booted. That's easy.
>
> To add the syscall to the kernel, one needs to drop a C code implementing
> the body of the call itself to some appropriate location of the kernel
> source tree. Isn't it so? I am doing that for the first time and want to be
> sure that the compilation, especially the includes work. Otherwise, the
> kernel compilation may throw an error midway, thereby wasting my time.
>

Hi Dipanjan,

    Try this from the toplevel kernel source directory:

    make SUBDIRS=/your/specific/directory

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Augusto Mecking Caringi
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