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From: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:19:04 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kbuild: correct variable definitions in
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To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org

On 19:50 Wed 29 Sep     , Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 05:03:29PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> > On 20.9.2010 08:33, matt mooney wrote:
> > > Change $(src) and $(obj) definitions to state the path as absolute and
> > > not relative.
> > 
> > It _is_ a relative patch, AFAICS. What makes you think otherwise?
> 
> With extenal modules $(src) and $(obj) are absolute - but in nomal use they are relative.
> And again in normal use they are also equal. I usually say that we have two just to document
> what is srource and what is generated.

Ah, I see. Sorry, I should have looked into this more. Now you did say in normal
use they are equal, but I thought they were also equal when used for an external
module too. Am I missing something?

Thanks,
mfm