[gentoo-user] Re: Add a module post kernel config/build

[reader@newsguy.com]

"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net> writes:

> On Wednesday 18 April 2007, reader@newsguy.com wrote about '[gentoo-user]  
> Add a module post kernel config/build':
>> Summary:
>> How can I add an additional module once I've configured/built a kernel?
>>
>> Details: After looking thru the handbook, especially section about
>> kernel config, I don't see information about how to add a module once
>> a kernel is built and running.
>
> For in-tree modules, go into the kernel source directory, use menuconfig or 
> whatever to set that configuration setting to 'm', make, make 
> modules-install.  (Or, at least, that's my preferred method modulo typos.)
>
[...]

All good info and tips.  Thanks Boyd.

Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> writes:

[...]

> I never used genkernel, but if you have the kernel source tree available, 
> you can just cd into it, adjust your configuration (using make *config), 
> then do "make && make modules_install". Only the new stuff you added 
> will be rebuilt and installed (ie, the fuse module in your case), 
> assuming you did not delete the already compiled object files inside the 
> tree.

Again... good and helpfull info... thanks.

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