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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
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On 5/6/2020 9:24 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> To me this is a regression, as it used to work and now it does not, thus
>> we should be fixing it, any idea about how we go about it without doing
>> a plain revert?
> 
> 
> In fact, a patch exists.
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11318691/
> 
> It allows you to link whatever file name to a module,
> but please read the comments from Christoph and Greg.
> 
> 
> In this case, your Makefile is doing strange.
> 
> I'd recommend to fix your Makefile.

Yes, I ended up finding a way to fix it, thank you for your time.
-- 
Florian