make headers_install for out-of-tree modules

[Daniel.]

Hi,

thanks for the replies

Well, I'm using out-of-tree for development, I use it in one tree
while working and on another at home, so I keep my module out-of-tree
at only one repository, and compile against too trees. This is my
header[1], it doesn't have anything special, only ioctl definitions. I
read that this header processing is mainly because of libc and
syscalls integration. Since I don't mess with syscalls and libc stuff
do I need to process them too? When and why this header processing
applies?

[1] https://bitbucket.org/danielhilst/nrf24/src/1b63724a4bcf181568a0970133d1e51a5883ad9f/include/linux/nrf24.h?at=master&fileviewer=file-view-default

Best regards,

2015-10-07 13:09 GMT-03:00 Greg KH <greg at kroah.com>:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 10:51:25AM -0300, Daniel. wrote:
>> Uhh, as I see from docs, this isn't supported,
>>
>> --- 2.3 Targets
>>
>> When building an external module, only a subset of the "make"
>> targets are available.
>> >From https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
>>
>> So, how can I export ioctl calls defined by an out-of-tree module?
>
> You get your out-of-tree module merged into the tree and it's
> automatically solved for you :)



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