From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] kbuild: remove the unneeded comments for external module builds
Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 19:10:58 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210504101058.96498-3-masahiroy@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210504101058.96498-1-masahiroy@kernel.org>
The supported targets for external modules are listed in the help target
a few lines below. Let's not have duplicated information in two places.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---
Makefile | 12 +-----------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2cbf68dc40b7..9b9a003bd88f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1711,17 +1711,7 @@ else # KBUILD_EXTMOD
# When building external modules the kernel used as basis is considered
# read-only, and no consistency checks are made and the make
# system is not used on the basis kernel. If updates are required
-# in the basis kernel ordinary make commands (without M=...) must
-# be used.
-#
-# The following are the only valid targets when building external
-# modules.
-# make M=dir clean Delete all automatically generated files
-# make M=dir modules Make all modules in specified dir
-# make M=dir Same as 'make M=dir modules'
-# make M=dir modules_install
-# Install the modules built in the module directory
-# Assumes install directory is already created
+# in the basis kernel ordinary make commands (without M=...) must be used.
# We are always building only modules.
KBUILD_BUILTIN :=
--
2.27.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-04 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-04 10:10 [PATCH 1/3] kbuild: make distclean work against $(objtree) instead of $(srctree) Masahiro Yamada
2021-05-04 10:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] kbuild: make distclean remove tag files in sub-directories Masahiro Yamada
2021-05-04 10:10 ` Masahiro Yamada [this message]
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