On 25.07.19 17:18, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > Hi Jan, > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 5:39 PM Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> wrote: >>> >> >> This affects also external modules builds: I have patterns here that do >> >> [Makefile] >> subdir-y := some-module >> >> [some-module/Makefile] >> obj-m := some-module.o >> >> and since this patch, the final some-module.ko is no longer built. Am I >> missing >> something in the kbuild makefiles, or is this a regression? > > Thanks for the report. > Interesting. I have never imagined that Makefiles were written like that. > > I just wrote a fix-up, but I have not determined to apply it. > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11059033/ > > It is easy to fixup your Makefile, though.
Thanks for addressing this quickly! I'm happy to adjust our code [1]. Is the suggested pattern usable with recent stable kernels as well, say down to 4.4 at least? Jan [1] https://github.com/siemens/jailhouse/blob/master/Kbuild#L54 -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RDA IOT SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
