On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 23:08:26 +0200, Michal Marek wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 02:56:15PM +0800, Zhao, Gang wrote: >> When using `make M=/path/to/driver modules` to build a module, file >> Module.symvers will be created in that directory, so it's better to >> ignore it in all directories. >> >> Slightly reordered, let specific file names behind general ones. >> >> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> >> Cc: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik....@lge.com> >> Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <mar...@trippelsdorf.de> >> Signed-off-by: Zhao, Gang <gamer...@gmail.com> > > Note that the easier way to build a subtree of the kernel source is > > make path/to/driver/ > Thanks for pointing out this.
> including the trailing /. But the M=... syntax seems so widespread that > I have to apply this. > The M=... syntax is the first I learned to build a module. I think it's popular because one can build out of tree drivers by using it(adding C=...). As you said, it's better to use `make path/to/driver/` to build in-tree drivers. > BTW: there is really no need to CC the last N people who touched > such a trivial file :). > ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl doesn't return the maintainer of this file. Maybe you can add this file to MAINTAINERS(telling you are the maintainer), but it's really so trivial. :-) > Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/