6.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Mark-PK Tsai mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com
[ Upstream commit 07d4cc2e7444356faac6552d0688a1670cc9d749 ]
The default INSTALL_MOD_DIR was changed from 'extra' to 'updates' in commit b74d7bb7ca24 ("kbuild: Modify default INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates").
This commit updates the documentation to align with the latest kernel.
Fixes: b74d7bb7ca24 ("kbuild: Modify default INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates") Signed-off-by: Mark-PK Tsai mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst index a1f3eb7a43e23..131863142cbb3 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ executed to make module versioning work.
modules_install Install the external module(s). The default location is - /lib/modules/<kernel_release>/extra/, but a prefix may + /lib/modules/<kernel_release>/updates/, but a prefix may be added with INSTALL_MOD_PATH (discussed in section 5).
clean @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ directory:
And external modules are installed in:
- /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/extra/ + /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/updates/
5.1 INSTALL_MOD_PATH -------------------- @@ -438,10 +438,10 @@ And external modules are installed in: -------------------
External modules are by default installed to a directory under - /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/extra/, but you may wish to + /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/updates/, but you may wish to locate modules for a specific functionality in a separate directory. For this purpose, use INSTALL_MOD_DIR to specify an - alternative name to "extra.":: + alternative name to "updates."::
$ make INSTALL_MOD_DIR=gandalf -C $KDIR \ M=$PWD modules_install