Hi Daniel, On Thursday 01 May 2008, Daniel Herzog wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > First of all, I'm new to Makefiles, so the following might be all wrong :-) > The makefile contains > "depmod -ae $(KERNEL_VERSION)" > My "man depmod" says: > -a --all Probe all modules. > This option is enabled by default, > if no file names are given in command-line. > -e --errsyms When combined with the -F option, [...] > > So one could leave out the -e option, and if all depmod versions behave the > same here also the -a option. Right?
It seems you're right, yes. > Is it needed to manually run depmod anyway if using a recent kernels > modules_install? Seems not, you're right there as well. > Same thing above where it says > cd $(KERNEL_DIR) && MAKE -C $(KERNEL_DIR) > Why go to KERNEL_DIR twice? Good question. I seem to remember there was a reason, but I can't find it now. Maybe something to do with older kernels ? > The SUBDIRS variable is used. In the Makefile of kernel version 2.6.25 it > says that it would be old syntax - i don't know how old and wether it is > still needed to support previous kernel versions, though. Seems it's been deprecated since at least 2.6.12-rc2. Thanks for the comments. I updated the Makefile, tested it against 2.6.15, and found no issue. I've committed the changes. Best regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linux-uvc-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-uvc-devel
