Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell: Use *-y instead of *-objs in Makefile

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

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025, Kurt Borja wrote:

> The `objs` suffix is reserved for user-space tools. Use the `y` suffix
> instead, which is usually used for kernel drivers.
> 
> Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@gmail.com>
> ---
> Hi all,
> 
> I based this patch on top of the for-next branch.
> 
> Ilpo, if you prefer this patch to be based on top of the fixes branch,
> let me know. I'd submit two separate patches, one for alienware-wmi, on
> top of the for-next branch and one for the other drivers, on top of
> fixes.

Thanks for the fix.

I took this through for-next branch to not make our lives unnecessarily 
complicated. If there would be only handful of -objs, I might have decide 
otherwise but this (wrong) pattern is really widespread so removing a few 
drops from the ocean is not going to sound us the finish line fanfare. But 
it's still an important step towards the right direction, regardless.

TBH, I didn't know the distinction either until Andy explained it (and 
like you, would have just copied the pattern if one was readily 
available). But I've never really deep dived into the kernel's build 
system anyway.

I wonder why checkpatch doesn't catch it, or does it? At least there are 
no "objs" strings in its source.

-- 
 i.

> 
> ~ Kurt
> 
>  drivers/platform/x86/dell/Makefile | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/Makefile b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/Makefile
> index 8ac9a933c770..c7501c25e627 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/Makefile
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
>  #
>  
>  obj-$(CONFIG_ALIENWARE_WMI)			+= alienware-wmi.o
> -alienware-wmi-objs				:= alienware-wmi-base.o
> +alienware-wmi-y					:= alienware-wmi-base.o
>  alienware-wmi-$(CONFIG_ALIENWARE_WMI_LEGACY)	+= alienware-wmi-legacy.o
>  alienware-wmi-$(CONFIG_ALIENWARE_WMI_WMAX)	+= alienware-wmi-wmax.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_DCDBAS)				+= dcdbas.o
> @@ -14,14 +14,14 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_DELL_RBTN)				+= dell-rbtn.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_DELL_RBU)				+= dell_rbu.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_DELL_PC)				+= dell-pc.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS)			+= dell-smbios.o
> -dell-smbios-objs				:= dell-smbios-base.o
> +dell-smbios-y					:= dell-smbios-base.o
>  dell-smbios-$(CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_WMI)		+= dell-smbios-wmi.o
>  dell-smbios-$(CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_SMM)		+= dell-smbios-smm.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_DELL_SMO8800)			+= dell-smo8800.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_DELL_SMO8800)			+= dell-lis3lv02d.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_DELL_UART_BACKLIGHT)		+= dell-uart-backlight.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_DELL_WMI)				+= dell-wmi.o
> -dell-wmi-objs					:= dell-wmi-base.o
> +dell-wmi-y					:= dell-wmi-base.o
>  dell-wmi-$(CONFIG_DELL_WMI_PRIVACY)		+= dell-wmi-privacy.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_DELL_WMI_AIO)			+= dell-wmi-aio.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_DELL_WMI_DESCRIPTOR)		+= dell-wmi-descriptor.o
> 
> base-commit: d497c47481f8e8f13e3191c9a707ed942d3bb3d7
>