From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hid: Makefile: Cleaned up Makefile Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:21:17 -0800 Message-ID: <20101117072117.GC7046@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <1289141188-1447-1-git-send-email-tdent48227@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:53081 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751481Ab0KQHV0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 02:21:26 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Tracey Dent Cc: Jiri Kosina , chatty@enac.fr, spbnick@gmail.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:28:19PM -0500, Tracey Dent wrote: > On 11/15/10, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Tracey Dent wrote: > > > >> Changed Makefile to use -y instead of -objs because > >> -objs is deprecated and should now be switched. According to > >> (documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt). > > > > Actually, where exactly does this file document it? > > > > It documents how it should be done in the section entitled --- 3.7 > Compilation flags (which starts on line 284). > Actually the only reference I could find is in 3.3: If a kernel module is built from several source files, you specify that you want to build a module in the same way as above; however, kbuild needs to know which object files you want to build your module from, so you have to tell it by setting a $(-y) variable. See commit 4f8272802739f5c6ce6b0a548810a181d2f1b652 for reasoning behind the change. Thanks. -- Dmitry