Re: [PATCH 1/1] kbuild: recursive build of external kernel modules

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Mon Aug 12 2019 - 21:07:18 EST


On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 2:34 AM Shaun Tancheff <shaun@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 10:24 AM Masahiro Yamada
> <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 9:21 AM Shaun Tancheff <shaun@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > When building a tree of external modules stage 2 fails
> > > silently as the root modules.order is empty.
> > >
> > > Modify the modules.order location to be fixed to the
> > > root when KBUILD_EXTMOD is specified and write all
> > > module paths to the single modules.order file.
> >
> > Could you try v5.3-rc4 please?
>
> So it seems we are using 'subdir-m' but that is now gone?
>
> Is there a recommend pattern for backward compatibility?
>
> Thanks!


Please convert

subdir-m += dir1
subdir-m += dir2

into

obj-m += dir1/
obj-m += dir2/


Thanks.

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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada