Hi Wouter,

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Wouter Simons <l...@woutersimons.org> wrote:
> On 10/12/2010 04:40 PM, Dave Hylands wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Wouter Simons <l...@woutersimons.org> wrote:
>>> On 10/12/2010 12:30 PM, shivanth m p wrote:
>> ...snip...
>>> all:
>>>        obj-m           += modname.o
>>>        modname-y       := mydriver.o
>>
>> That's definitely not going to work.
>
> Perhaps that is my mistake indeed. As I said I create makefiles that
> will work if you just run make inside the project folder by checking if
> I am in the kernel build system or not. Basically I use this template:
>
> ifneq ($(KERNELRELEASE),)
>        obj-m := composite_driver.o
>        composite_driver-y := file1.o file2.o
>
> else
>        KERNELDIR ?= ~/Kernel/linux-2.6.35-rc6/
>        PWD := $(shell pwd)
>
> default:
>        make -C $(KERNELDIR) M=$(PWD) modules
>
> clean:
>        make -C $(KERNELDIR) M=$(PWD) clean
>
> endif

That looks reasonable, although the normal way of specifying multiple
files in an object is like:

obj-m := composite_driver.o
composite_driver-objs := file1.o file2.o

which is what you mentioned with the excerpt from the kbuild documenation.

...snip...

> (did I get it right the second time around? ;-)

Mostly. You used composite_driver-y rather then composite_driver-objs

-- 
Dave Hylands
Shuswap, BC, Canada
http://www.DaveHylands.com/

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