Re: af_unix.c, KBUILD_MODNAME and unix

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sun Mar 20 2005 - 16:53:52 EST


>> Why is not KBUILD_MODNAME=af_unix ?
>
>The exact solution does not matter that much to me, and I'm afraid I
>do not know how changing KBUILD_MODNAME affects the rest of the
>codebase. So basically - someone else should decide... but who?

KBUILD_MODNAME is "not used", which means you can use it for anything that
like. You can undef it, redefine, thwap it all over and whatnot.
It's a generosity from /usr/bin/make generally providing the module with its
own name.




Jan Engelhardt
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