Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] platform/x86: intel: Add 'intel' prefix to the modules automatically

["Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>]

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On Mon, 28 Oct 2024, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 01:49:52PM +0100, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 11:58 AM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 01:59:51PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > Rework Makefile to add 'intel' prefix to the modules automatically.
> > > > This removes a lot of boilerplate code in it and also makes robust
> > > > against mistypos in the prefix.
> > >
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > v2: fixed obvious typos (LKP), Cc'ed to Kbuild ML (Ilpo), dropped RFC marker
> > > >
> > > > Note to Kbuild people: TBH I rather want to have something like this
> > > > to be available on the level of Kbuild for any of the subdirectories
> > > > in question.
> > >
> > > Anyone, any comments on this?
> > > This already passed a CI tests without failure so far. Perhaps it's good
> > > to apply to show the demand of such a feature in Kbuild in the future?
> > > Because I want to do the same for various */tests/ folders where we have
> > > tons of test*, *kunit modules effectively duplicating the folder name.
> > 
> > I do not like what you are doing here,
> 
> That's why the question is to Kbuild if it's possible to have this feature
> available treewide for users in a form that you like?
> 
> > but it is up to you whatever you do in Makefiles you maintain.
> 
> Thanks! Ilpo, what do you think about applying this in its current form?

I applied this patch now to review-ilpo branch. Hopefully we'll one day 
have a generic mechanism for this but until then this will have to do.

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