[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/10] mk: install kernel modules

[Thomas Monjalon]

2015-12-02 11:53, Panu Matilainen:
> On 12/02/2015 05:57 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > Add kernel modules to "make install".
> > Nothing is done if there is no kernel module compiled.
> >
> > On native Linux, this path is suggested:
> > 	kerneldir=/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/dpdk
[...]
> > +kerneldir   ?= $(exec_prefix)/kmod
> 
> This by default installs the modules to /usr/local/kmod/ with no kernel 
> version etc. That's so broken that it'd be better not to install them at 
> all.
> 
> So either get the kerneldir right (the correct path is known on Linux 
> and surely BSD too) or dont install them at all unless kerneldir is 
> manually specified. For Linux, it should default to 
> /lib/modules/<kernelver>/extra/dpdk on Linux, where <kernelver> is the 
> version those modules were built against (which might or might not have 
> anything to do with uname -r output).

Yes. That's what Mario did.
I wanted to keep the same default as with the old T= command.
But both are do-able by using "ifdef T".