Re: [PATCH 12/12] VMCI: Some header and config files.

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 06:05:38PM -0700, George Zhang wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/Makefile
> @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
> +################################################################################
> +#
> +# Linux driver for VMware's VMCI device.
> +#
> +# Copyright (C) 2007-2012, VMware, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
> +#
> +# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> +# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
> +# Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License and no later version.
> +#
> +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
> +# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> +# MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, GOOD TITLE or
> +# NON INFRINGEMENT.  See the GNU General Public License for more
> +# details.
> +#
> +# Maintained by: Andrew Stiegmann <pv-drivers@vmware.com>
> +#
> +################################################################################

That's a big boiler-plate for a makefile :)

Wait, what's Andrew's name doing here, and yet it isn't on any of the
signed-off-by: or From: lines of the driver?  Surely you aren't the only
contributor here?

> +#
> +# Makefile for the VMware VMCI
> +#

That's the only needed comment for this file, if even that.

> +
> +obj-$(CONFIG_VMWARE_VMCI) += vmw_vmci.o
> +
> +vmw_vmci-y += vmci_context.o
> +vmw_vmci-y += vmci_datagram.o
> +vmw_vmci-y += vmci_doorbell.o
> +vmw_vmci-y += vmci_driver.o
> +vmw_vmci-y += vmci_event.o
> +vmw_vmci-y += vmci_guest.o
> +vmw_vmci-y += vmci_handle_array.o
> +vmw_vmci-y += vmci_host.o
> +vmw_vmci-y += vmci_queue_pair.o
> +vmw_vmci-y += vmci_resource.o
> +vmw_vmci-y += vmci_route.o

You can do this cleaner with multiple .o objects on the same line...

> +vmci:
> +	$(MAKE) -C ../../.. SUBDIRS=$$PWD CONFIG_VMWARE_VMCI=m modules
> +
> +clean:
> +	$(MAKE) -C ../../.. SUBDIRS=$$PWD CONFIG_VMWARE_VMCI=m clean

What are these two last targets for?  I'm guessing this is from when you
ported it from a stand-along module?  Please remove them.

greg k-h