Building kernel driver outside of the kernel tree

In kernel 2.6.x it seems to be possible to build drivers (modules)
outside of the kernel source. This is very useful for testing out new
drivers. Is this anywhere documented? If not can anyone volunteer to
write a small documentation?

O. Wyss

-- 
See a huge pile of work at "http://wyodesktop.sourceforge.net/"


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On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Otto Wyss wrote:

In kernel 2.6.x it seems to be possible to build drivers (modules)
outside of the kernel source. This is very useful for testing out new
drivers. Is this anywhere documented? If not can anyone volunteer to
write a small documentation?

Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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