Commit 07d4cc2e authored by Mark-PK Tsai's avatar Mark-PK Tsai Committed by Masahiro Yamada
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kbuild: doc: Update default INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates 



The default INSTALL_MOD_DIR was changed from 'extra' to
'updates' in commit b74d7bb7 ("kbuild: Modify default
INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates").

This commit updates the documentation to align with the
latest kernel.

Fixes: b74d7bb7 ("kbuild: Modify default INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
parent 9cc5f3bf

Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst

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	modules_install

		Install the external module(s). The default location is

		/lib/modules/<kernel_release>/extra/, but a prefix may

		/lib/modules/<kernel_release>/updates/, but a prefix may

		be added with INSTALL_MOD_PATH (discussed in section 5).



	clean
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ directory: 


And external modules are installed in:



	/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/extra/

	/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/updates/



5.1 INSTALL_MOD_PATH

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@@ -438,10 +438,10 @@ And external modules are installed in: 
-------------------



	External modules are by default installed to a directory under

	/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/extra/, but you may wish to

	/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/updates/, but you may wish to

	locate modules for a specific functionality in a separate

	directory. For this purpose, use INSTALL_MOD_DIR to specify an

	alternative name to "extra."::

	alternative name to "updates."::



		$ make INSTALL_MOD_DIR=gandalf -C $KDIR \

		       M=$PWD modules_install