Where should I put ar71xx_* modules?

[Adrian Chadd]

Because they have to compile only for MIPS? And they'd only work for ar71xx?



Adrian

On 8 January 2012 23:59, Stefan Bethke <stb at lassitu.de> wrote:
> Am 09.01.2012 um 00:42 schrieb Adrian Chadd:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In order to fit an lzma'd kernel in 892 kilobytes of flash (that's 892
>> * 1024 bytes), I've needed to break out a few things into modules.
>>
>> I'd like to commit a couple of modules - for example,
>> ar71xx_ehci/ar71xx_ohci for USB stuff - but I don't want them built
>> for anything other than ar71xx builds. Thus I don't see the reason for
>> putting them in sys/modules/Makefile.
>>
>> They build fine if they're included in MODULES_OVERRIDE in the
>> relevant kernel config file.
>>
>> So is it ok to just commit some modules in sys/modules/ which aren't
>> in the Makefile, and instead include them in the relevant SoC kernel
>> configs so they're built? Or is there some other tradition for doing
>> this?
>
> Why would it hurt to have them connected to the standard build?  Doe the tinderboxes build modules?
>
>
> Stefan
>
> --
> Stefan Bethke <stb at lassitu.de>   Fon +49 151 14070811
>
>
>