From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: anders.darander@gmail.com (Anders Darander) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:30:48 +0200 Subject: out-of-tree configuration In-Reply-To: <1403100129.65690.YahooMailNeo@web160703.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1403100129.65690.YahooMailNeo@web160703.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On 18 Jun 2014 16:02, "john bougs" wrote: > > > > > On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 6:47 AM, Anders Darander < anders.darander@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 18 June 2014 15:03, John Bougs wrote: > > I am working with a kernel module that has a few kconfig options associated > > with it. The makefile for the module as it is does not support out-of-tree > > builds. I am trying to change the the makefile to do out-of-tree builds. > > First, why do you want to build the module out-of-tree? > > For 3rd party modules I can understand that need, OTOH, in that case your > question wouldn't have existed. > > > I am working with a third party module that I am building out of tree. I trying this across multiple platforms. I am placing the module code in our VCS... out of tree seems to be a cleaner, simpler, les complicated solution to me. Well, from your first email, I got the impression that you tried to move an in-tree module out of the kernel tree. What 3rd party module is it that you're building, that is delivered to you in a state to only allow in-tree builds? That's a pretty uncommon situation. Are the config options you need to be set something that only this module knows about, or are they something the rest of the kernel knows about? > Without trying to sound confrontational, why not build it out of tree? Well, there's nothing wrong to build a true 3rd party module out-of-tree. It might very well be your only choice due to a number of factors. Though, if you can get it upstreamed, you'll win in the long term. Cheers, Anders -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20140618/e9185bc0/attachment.html