Hey, I think you want modules_install instead of install_module

-Marcelo

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:23 PM Nathanael J Grix
<nath...@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I recently decided to try and make contributions to the kernel. I normally 
> just use windows as my operating system so I decided to set up Slackware to 
> develop on. I thought a good place to start would to actually compile the 
> kernel and install it before I actually make any changes. I ran:
> make O=/home/nathanael/KernelBuild localmodconfig
> make O=/home/nathanael/KernelBuild
>
> After getting it compiled I ran:
> bash-4.3$ sudo make O=/home/nathanael/KernelBuild/ install_module install
>
> but got this error:
> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/nathanael/KernelBuild'
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'install_module'.  Stop.
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/nathanael/KernelBuild'
> Makefile:180: recipe for target 'sub-make' failed
> make: *** [sub-make] Error 2
>
> I have tried looking around but haven't found anything that has been 
> particularly useful in figuring this out. I am not sure what info might be 
> relevant so I'll just let you know that I'm on Slackware 14.2 and trying to 
> upgrade the Kernel from 4.4.208 to 5.6.0 and I am using ELILO instead of 
> LILO. If anyone has any suggestions or can even just direct me to some 
> resources that might have more info on what is going on with make 
> install_module or the error that would be sick. Thanks.
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