Commit 07d4cc2e authored by Mark-PK Tsai's avatar Mark-PK Tsai Committed by Masahiro Yamada

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
......@@ -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
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