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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: build external module splited into several files
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 11:47:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160404184740.GC32131@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459792809.2543.80.camel@cvidal.org>

On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 08:00:09PM +0200, Colin Vidal wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently reading LDD the 3rd edition. Chapter 2 says that if we
> need for example to build module "foo.c" which is split in two other
> files "sub1.c" and "sub2.c", we just have to define the following
> Kbuild variable in the makefile:
> 
> foo-objs := sub1.o sub2.o
> 
> I suppose that?
> 
> foo-y := sub1.o sub2.o
> 
> has the same semantic ? That's not very clear to me.

Nope, not at all, stick with the "foo-objs" string instead please.

That should resolve your other issues here.

hope this helps,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-04 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-04 18:00 build external module splited into several files Colin Vidal
2016-04-04 18:47 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-04-04 19:43   ` Colin Vidal

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