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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:24:21 +0200
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
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Subject: Re: The assemble file under the driver folder can not be recognized when the driver is built as module
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On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 02:04:59PM -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
 
> Can't he just put his own private compile definition in his
> own Makefile?
> 
> %.o:	%.S
>  	as -o $@ $<

That would never generate a module anyway. And kbuild support building
.o from .S with all the kbuild argument chechking etc.
Doing it so would be wrong.

	Sam