linux-kernel - Re: building custom module on 2.6.28 fails

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Message-ID: <20090125191816.GA31368@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:18:16 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
Cc:	Satish Eerpini <eerpini@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: building custom module on 2.6.28 fails

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 07:57:37PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 14:47 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:49:16PM +0530, Satish Eerpini wrote:
> > > >> It seems you run "make clean" or "make distclean" in your kernel sources
> > > >>
> > > >> run "make prepare" in your kernel sources then you will not get this
> > > >> error.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I ran make clean and then make prepare but it gives an error saying
> > > "no such file or directory : modpost ", ....
> > > Then i ran make( in the kernel source tree) , and terminated it after
> > > a few files were compiled and then again tried to compile my module,
> > > this time it worked without any errors, ....... any particular reason
> > > for this ??
> > We are currently lacking a dependency on "scripts" so doing:
> > make scripts
> > make prepare
> > is needed today.
> 
> As per makefile:
> # make clean     Delete most generated files
> #                Leave enough to build external modules
> 
> So is this OK to delete include/linux/bounds.h by 'make clean'.
No - only mrproper and distclean should delete it.

	Sam
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