Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory

From: Edgecombe, Rick P
Date: Fri Jun 28 2024 - 17:24:18 EST


On Fri, 2024-06-28 at 11:13 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> There are two solutions, depending on what you want to achieve.
>
> The official way is to pass the absolute path to M=
> (or relative path to ../linux-tdm-kvm-out)
>
> The other unofficial way is to pass VPATH.
> The external module build does not officially support
> the separate output directory, but you can still
> do it in this case.
>
> [1] will work like before.

The absolute path worked, but why not make it use the relative path by default
in this case? "arch/x86/kvm/" shouldn't be confused with an absolute path...