Re: [RFC] kbuild: make it possible to specify the module output dir

[Michal Marek]

On 2015-02-09 11:58, Kiran Raparthy wrote:
> From: Rom Lemarchand <romlem@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> kbuild: make it possible to specify the module output dir
> 
> Make modinst_dir user-defined on the command line.
> 
> This allows to do things like:
> make MODLIB=output/ modinst_dir=. modules_install
> 
> to ensure all the .ko are in the output/ directory.

Please explain the use case and why it is needed. There are two
user-changeable variables used by modules_install:

INSTALL_MOD_PATH - prepended to /lib/modules/..., to allow installation
                   to a staging directory by non-root
INSTALL_MOD_DIR  - for out-of-tree modules; specifies the subdirectory
                   of /lib/modules/.../ to put the modules under
                   (default: "extra").

The hierarchy used in the source tree is reflected under
/lib/modules/.../extra, but that should not be an issue.

Michal
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