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

[Shaun Tancheff]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 8:07 PM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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/

After working through some local quirks everything is working now.
Thanks!

>
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Masahiro Yamada