Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:21:17 -0800 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hid: Makefile: Cleaned up Makefile |
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:28:19PM -0500, Tracey Dent wrote: > On 11/15/10, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Tracey Dent wrote: > > > >> Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because > >> -objs is deprecated and should now be switched. According to > >> (documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt). > > > > Actually, where exactly does this file document it? > > > > It documents how it should be done in the section entitled --- 3.7 > Compilation flags (which starts on line 284). >
Actually the only reference I could find is in 3.3:
If a kernel module is built from several source files, you specify that you want to build a module in the same way as above; however, kbuild needs to know which object files you want to build your module from, so you have to tell it by setting a $(<module_name>-y) variable.
See commit 4f8272802739f5c6ce6b0a548810a181d2f1b652 for reasoning behind the change.
Thanks.
-- Dmitry
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