Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:32:16 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: Removing .tmp_versions considered harmful |
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On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:22:22AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Hello! > > A patch applied shortly after Linux 2.6.16 > (fb3cbd2e575f9ac0700bfa1e7cb9f4119fbd0abd in git) causes > the .tmp_versions directory to be removed every time make is run to > build external modules. > > > 2) The projects where modules are build in more than one directory (such > as MadWifi) are now compiled with spurious warnings about unresolved > symbols. This happens because every module is compiled individually, > and the *.mod files for one module are removed before the other is > compiled.
Then fix madwifi so it builds modules as documented in Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt See: --- 5.3 External modules using several directories
As with many other external modules madwifi contains a lot of ugly makefile hackery - and if done as documentated it gets so much simpler. I'm aware that 2-4 support complicates things a little but if people made it be slimm and nice for 2.6 and _then_ added 2.4 supporrrrrrrrrrit woulllllld be much simpler. It seems that people keep all the hackery for 2.4 and does a bad job adapting to 2.6.
All the bad FAQ's out there does a good job confusing people. Almost no-one mention SUBDIRS= as is preferred with 2.4 but seldom used :-(
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