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kbuild: doc: Update default INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates

Message ID 20240614071507.11359-1-mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com (mailing list archive)
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Mark-PK Tsai June 14, 2024, 7:15 a.m. UTC 
The default INSTALL_MOD_DIR was changed from 'extra' to
'updates' in commit b74d7bb7ca24 ("kbuild: Modify default
INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates").

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

Signed-off-by: Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com>
---
 Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Masahiro Yamada June 15, 2024, 6:49 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 4:15 PM Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com> wrote:
>
> The default INSTALL_MOD_DIR was changed from 'extra' to
> 'updates' in commit b74d7bb7ca24 ("kbuild: Modify default
> INSTALL_MOD_DIR from extra to updates").
>
> This commit updates the documentation to align with the
> latest kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com>
> ---

Applied to linux-kbuild.
Thanks!
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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
index a1f3eb7a43e2..131863142cbb 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@  executed to make module versioning work.
 
 	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
 --------------------
@@ -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