From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 1/1] net: intel: Use *-y instead of *-objs in Makefile
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 17:25:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZjuLW8jA3MuT0oih@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6ac025de-9264-4510-ba7f-f9a56c564a80@intel.com>
On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 03:35:26PM +0200, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > *-objs suffix is reserved rather for (user-space) host programs while
> > usually *-y suffix is used for kernel drivers (although *-objs works
> > for that purpose for now).
> >
> > Let's correct the old usages of *-objs in Makefiles.
>
> Wait, I was sure I've seen somewhere that -objs is more new and
> preferred over -y.
Then you are mistaken.
> See recent dimlib comment where Florian changed -y to
> -objs for example.
So does he :-)
> Any documentation reference that -objs is for userspace and we should
> clearly use -y?
Sure. Luckily it's documented in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
"Composite Host Programs" (mind the meaning of the word "host"!).
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-08 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-08 13:23 [PATCH net-next v1 1/1] net: intel: Use *-y instead of *-objs in Makefile Andy Shevchenko
2024-05-08 13:35 ` Alexander Lobakin
2024-05-08 14:25 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2024-05-08 14:39 ` Alexander Lobakin
2024-05-08 14:40 ` Alexander Lobakin
2024-05-08 14:42 ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Loktionov, Aleksandr
2024-05-08 17:58 ` Jacob Keller
2024-05-08 18:02 ` Andy Shevchenko
2024-05-08 17:28 ` kernel test robot
2024-05-08 17:56 ` Andy Shevchenko
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