Re: [PATCH] kbuild: define KBUILD_MODNAME even if multiple modules share objects

[Cao jin]

On 11/16/2017 03:46 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Currently, KBUILD_MODNAME is defined only when $(modname) contains
> just one word.  If an object is shared between multiple modules,
> undefined KBUILD_MODNAME causes a build error.
> 
> A simple test case is as follows:
> 
>   obj-m += foo.o
>   obj-m += bar.o
>   foo-objs := foo-bar-common.o foo-main.o
>   bar-objs := foo-bar-common.o bar-main.o
> 
> In this case, we do not know what to define for KBUILD_MODNAME when
> compiling foo-bar-common.o ("foo" or "bar" ?), so one reasonable
> solution is let it fall back to $(basetarget) (= "foo-bar-common").
> 
> It would be better to avoid such a design where possible, but we
> already have such a case, for example,
> drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/Makefile
> 
> I slightly refactored implementation; we can check $(word 2, $(modname))
> instead of $(filter 1,$(words $(modname))).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
>  scripts/Makefile.lib | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> index 5fbc46d..9f9a7df 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> @@ -86,8 +86,7 @@ subdir-ym	:= $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(subdir-ym))
>  #       differ in different configs.
>  name-fix = $(squote)$(quote)$(subst $(comma),_,$(subst -,_,$1))$(quote)$(squote)
>  basename_flags = -DKBUILD_BASENAME=$(call name-fix,$(basetarget))
> -modname_flags  = $(if $(filter 1,$(words $(modname))),\
> -                 -DKBUILD_MODNAME=$(call name-fix,$(modname)))
> +modname_flags  = -DKBUILD_MODNAME=$(call name-fix,$(if $(word 2,$(modname)),$(basetarget),$(modname)))
>  
>  orig_c_flags   = $(KBUILD_CPPFLAGS) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) \
>                   $(ccflags-y) $(CFLAGS_$(basetarget).o)
> 

I like this style of the refactor, because it is a bit more readable
according to human mind, Âand it also behave the same as before in the
case drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/Makefile: modname =
$(basetarget). So:

Tested-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Sincerely,
Cao jin