1For now this is a raw copy from the old Documentation/modules.txt, 2which was removed in 2.6.0-test5. 3The information herein is correct but not complete. 4 5Installing modules in a non-standard location 6--------------------------------------------- 7When the modules needs to be installed under another directory 8the INSTALL_MOD_PATH can be used to prefix "/lib/modules" as seen 9in the following example: 10 11make INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/frodo modules_install 12 13This will install the modules in the directory /frodo/lib/modules. 14/frodo can be a NFS mounted filesystem on another machine, allowing 15out-of-the-box support for installation on remote machines. 16 17 18Compiling modules outside the official kernel 19--------------------------------------------- 20Often modules are developed outside the official kernel. 21To keep up with changes in the build system the most portable way 22to compile a module outside the kernel is to use the following command-line: 23 24make -C path/to/kernel/src SUBDIRS=$PWD modules 25 26This requires that a makefile exits made in accordance to 27Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. 28 29
