Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:08:26 +0200 | From | Michal Marek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] .gitignore: ignore Module.symvers in all directories |
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 02:56:15PM +0800, Zhao, Gang wrote: > When using `make M=/path/to/driver modules` to build a module, file > Module.symvers will be created in that directory, so it's better to > ignore it in all directories. > > Slightly reordered, let specific file names behind general ones. > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com> > Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> > Signed-off-by: Zhao, Gang <gamerh2o@gmail.com>
Note that the easier way to build a subtree of the kernel source is
make path/to/driver/
including the trailing /. But the M=... syntax seems so widespread that I have to apply this.
BTW: there is really no need to CC the last N people who touched such a trivial file :).
Michal
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