Re: [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hid: Makefile: Cleaned up Makefile

[Tracey Dent]

On 11/17/10, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:28:19PM -0500, Tracey Dent wrote:
>> On 11/15/10, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Tracey Dent wrote:
>> >
>> >> Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because
>> >> -objs is deprecated and should now be switched. According to
>> >> (documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt).
>> >
>> > Actually, where exactly does this file document it?
>> >
>>
>> It documents how it should be done in the section entitled --- 3.7
>> Compilation flags (which starts on line 284).
>>
>
> Actually the only reference I could find is in 3.3:
>
>         If a kernel module is built from several source files, you specify
>         that you want to build a module in the same way as above; however,
>         kbuild needs to know which object files you want to build your
>         module from, so you have to tell it by setting a $(<module_name>-y)
>         variable.
>
> See commit 4f8272802739f5c6ce6b0a548810a181d2f1b652 for reasoning behind
> the change.
>

You're right, I was thinking I changed to use ccflags-y flags. Sorry :(

> Thanks.
>
> --
> Dmitry
>

Thanks

Tracey Dent
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