From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 11:47:40 -0700
Subject: build external module splited into several files
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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