Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:25:42 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Robert P. J. Day" <> | Subject | misleading kernel config error msg when building module against kernel |
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when one tries to build a simple module against a "make distclean"ed source tree, one gets:
ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid. include/generated/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing. Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.
that diagnostic seems inaccurate in two ways.
first, "make oldconfig" is unnecessarily specific -- it should really just say, "you must configure your kernel source first."
and second, "make prepare" should really say "make modules_prepare", should it not?
anyone mind if i submit a patch?
rday
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