how do you compile a kernel module without re-compiling the whole kernel?

[Jason Joines]

    I'm using SuSE 9.2 with 2.6.10 vanilla kernel.  I have an Adaptec 
2810SA card that is using the the aacraid module that came with that 
kernel.  Everything is working fine as far as the raid is concerned, 
I've stress tested it pretty hard.  However, I have to use the card's 
BIOS to configure it as Adaptec's command line utilities won't find the 
card.  I downloaded the driver source from Adaptec and did a diff on one 
of the *.c files there against the same file in 
/usr/src/linux-2.6.10/....  There was quite a bit of difference so I'd 
like to try that module.
    There were instructions with the Adaptec source to patch my linux 
source but I don't want to have to recompile the whole kernel.  I guess 
I could do just the 'make modules; make modules_install' part again but 
don't really want to recompile and reinstall all the other modules.  Is 
there any way to just make and install this one module?

Thanks,

Jason Joines
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