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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: kbuild- sub directroy makefile
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 19:12:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150422171215.GC2551@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZFCEF5pzsvHi24NPCktfThtKE4141pz7m31f8=8kRC1Mz=Xw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 09:42:59PM +0530, ratheesh kannoth wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > Nope, why do you want to do that?  The kernel build will show you that
> > hello.o is being built, when it is built.
> 
> Greg,
> There was some problem with env variables ( that i exported to shell
> from top ) that my makefile is using.

Kernel makefiles should not be using any environment variables.  Your
makefile should be almost exactly what you posted, just a list of the .o
files it takes to build the module.  Nothing else is needed.

If it is, you are making things much harder than they should be :)

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2015-04-22 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-22 15:41 kbuild- sub directroy makefile ratheesh kannoth
2015-04-22 16:06 ` Greg KH
2015-04-22 16:12   ` ratheesh kannoth
2015-04-22 17:12     ` Greg KH [this message]

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