Re: kbuild: LDFLAGS_MODULE unusable for external module builds (2.6.23-rc2)

[Henry Nestler]

Hello Sam,

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > > What macro should set for linker parameters of foo.o ? I'm not shure.
> > > Have you read:
> > > Documentation/kbuild/makfilefiles.txt?
> > Yes. This was a *very* helpfull. And many examples spokes about 
> > LDFLAGS_$@ there. Not directly described for modules.
>
> Took a deeper look.
> I saw one reference to LDFLAGS_$@ that is wrong:
>     LDFLAGS             Generic $(LD) options
>
>         Flags used for all invocations of the linker.
>         Often specifying the emulation is sufficient.
>
>         Example:
>                 #arch/s390/Makefile
>                 LDFLAGS         := -m elf_s390
>         Note: EXTRA_LDFLAGS and LDFLAGS_$@ can be used to further customise
>         the flags used. See chapter 7.
>
> The chapter reference is also bad...
> The other references to the LDFLAGS_$@ are in other situations - it is
> used in several places.
>
> If your example requires the LDFALGS_$@ I wil introduce it - for now
> it has not been required (except for vdso support where it was hacked).

I will check EXTRA_LDFLAGS compatibilities with older kernel versions. 
Than I come back with results. Currently I no need LDFLAGS_$@.

--
Henry

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