Build just one module (was Re: [Fwd: cvs commit:

[Mathieu Prevot]

Le 24 nov. 05 à 19:47, Nate Lawson a écrit :

> Mathieu Prevot wrote:
>> Le 23 nov. 05 à 15:48, Doug Poland a écrit :
>>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:49:20AM +0100, Mathieu Prevot wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Le 23 nov. 05 ? 03:49, Doug Poland a ?crit :
>>>>
>>>>>> Nate Lawson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here is a patch that should fix the battery hangs on  
>>>>>>> RELENG_6.  It
>>>>>>> was tested to work fine, although I need testing from an  
>>>>>>> affected
>>>>>>> user to verify it fixes the problem.  It was committed to  
>>>>>>> HEAD and
>>>>>>> will be MFCed if it fixes the problem.
>>>>>>>
>>>>> My Dell C600 is affected by this problem.  I'm running 6.0- 
>>>>> STABLE  and
>>>>> would be glad to test the patch.  Since I don't run patches   
>>>>> often, if
>>>>> someone could point me to a doc on how to apply the patch, I'd
>>>>> appreciate it.
>>>>
>>>> You should think man 'subject', Unix for the impatient or google  
>>>> and
>>>> find things like:
>>>>
>>>> patch -i patchfile filetopatch
>>>> patch<patchfile
>>>>
>>> Thank you, that part is fairly obvious.  What I'm unsure of is   
>>> where in
>>> the source tree do I apply that patch from, and, must I to rebuild
>>> world, or just the affected part of sys/dev.
>> Try and see for the patch. 'patch -i patchfile filetopatch' works   
>> from anywhere.
>> I don't think you need to rebuild world. I think you can just  
>> build  acpi module but I don't know how.
>> You may glance at /usr/src/Makefile* ...
>
> Look at the path in the patch start.  If it's "sys/dev", then patch  
> from your src dir.  If it's "src/sys/dev", patch from above the src  
> dir.  If it's just "file.c", then you have to find file.c and patch  
> from there (but few people generate diffs this way, it's bad form).
>
> For acpi, then just:
> cd /sys/modules/acpi/acpi && make && cp acpi.ko /
>
> Then at the loader prompt:
> load /acpi.ko
>
> You don't want to use "make install", otherwise you overwrite your  
> known good acpi.ko

Thanks Nate

MP