Re: Module building oddities with <module>-objs under Kernel 2.6.8.1

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Sat Oct 02 2004 - 02:05:47 EST


On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 01:13:54AM -0400, Andre Bonin wrote:
> Here is the Makefile.

It is preferred to guard the kbuild specific stuff inside
ifeq ($(KERNELRELEASE),)
Normal stuff
else
kbuild stuff
endif

> ----------------------------------------------------
> KDIR := /usr/src/linux
> PWD := $(shell pwd)
>
> obj-m += datasim.o
> datasim-objs := status.o
This is wrong, you cannot use same name for a .o file and the final module.

Name your .c file datasim_core.c or similar and use:
obj-m := datasim.o
datasim-objs := datasim_core.o status.o

Sam
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