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Support building driver as a loadable kernel module. This allows to reduce size of a kernel zImage, which is important for some devices since size of kernel partition may be limited and since some bootloader variants have known problems in regards to the initrd placement if kernel image is too big. $ lsmod Module Size Used by gpio_tegra 16384 27 Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.