Adding forgotten kernel module without complete recompile

[Net Llama!]

On 07/11/03 14:11, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:

> ... the subject tells it all.
> Now the module in question wasn't really forgotten, I didn't need it on 
> my last recompile, but now I do: I have a very nice new device, a Mambo 
> USB Music Drive which is a mp3 player and a 128 MB USB storage in one, 
> as small as a lighter. It should hotplug in Linux as well as it does in 
> Windows, so I need usb-storage.o which I had disabled on my last full 
> kernel compile.
> How could I get usb-storage working (on a stock 2.4.21 kernel) without 
> the whole recompile story which I really don't want to go through?
> This should be possible, and I faintly remember to have done something 
> like that before ...
> All the other necessary usb stuff is already there.

Assuming that usb-storage doesn't make changes to the kernel itself, i 
think you just need to do another kernel build, but skip the 'make bzImage' 
step.


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