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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kbuild: define KBUILD_MODNAME even if multiple modules share objects
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On 11/16/2017 03:46 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Currently, KBUILD_MODNAME is defined only when $(modname) contains
> just one word. If an object is shared between multiple modules,
> undefined KBUILD_MODNAME causes a build error.
>
> A simple test case is as follows:
>
> obj-m += foo.o
> obj-m += bar.o
> foo-objs := foo-bar-common.o foo-main.o
> bar-objs := foo-bar-common.o bar-main.o
>
> In this case, we do not know what to define for KBUILD_MODNAME when
> compiling foo-bar-common.o ("foo" or "bar" ?), so one reasonable
> solution is let it fall back to $(basetarget) (= "foo-bar-common").
>
> It would be better to avoid such a design where possible, but we
> already have such a case, for example,
> drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/Makefile
>
> I slightly refactored implementation; we can check $(word 2, $(modname))
> instead of $(filter 1,$(words $(modname))).
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
> ---
>
> scripts/Makefile.lib | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> index 5fbc46d..9f9a7df 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> @@ -86,8 +86,7 @@ subdir-ym := $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(subdir-ym))
> # differ in different configs.
> name-fix = $(squote)$(quote)$(subst $(comma),_,$(subst -,_,$1))$(quote)$(squote)
> basename_flags = -DKBUILD_BASENAME=$(call name-fix,$(basetarget))
> -modname_flags = $(if $(filter 1,$(words $(modname))),\
> - -DKBUILD_MODNAME=$(call name-fix,$(modname)))
> +modname_flags = -DKBUILD_MODNAME=$(call name-fix,$(if $(word 2,$(modname)),$(basetarget),$(modname)))
>
> orig_c_flags = $(KBUILD_CPPFLAGS) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) \
> $(ccflags-y) $(CFLAGS_$(basetarget).o)
>

I like this style of the refactor, because it is a bit more readable
according to human mind,  and it also behave the same as before in the
case drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/Makefile: modname =
$(basetarget). So:

Tested-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>

--
Sincerely,
Cao jin


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