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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.5] initrd/mkinitrd still not working
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:12:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030120191250.GA1314@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030120155250.GB58326@compsoc.man.ac.uk>

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:52:50PM +0000, John Levon wrote:
> > As to why the .o -> .ko name change was necessary, I have no idea.
> > Rusty?
> 
> For one thing, it means you can do :
> 
> obj-$(CONFIG_OPROFILE) += oprofile.o
> oprofile-y                              := $(DRIVER_OBJS) init.o
> timer_int.o
> oprofile-$(CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC)       += nmi_int.o op_model_athlon.o \
>                                            op_model_ppro.o op_model_p4.o

The above mentioned possibility to list 'members' of a composite object
by means of either:
oprofile-y
or
oprofile-objs

has nothing to do with the .ko extension.
But that feature may have been added in the same time-frame though.


I do not recall exactly whay Kai introduced the .ko extension, but
without checking I assume that makes it easier / possible to do some
added tricks in the makefiles.

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-20 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-20 14:57 [2.5] initrd/mkinitrd still not working Mikael Pettersson
2003-01-20 15:52 ` John Levon
2003-01-20 19:12   ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2003-01-20 19:19     ` John Levon
2003-01-20 19:35       ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-01-21  2:18         ` Michal Jaegermann
2003-01-21 17:02           ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-28  1:03 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-28 17:10   ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-29  0:48     ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-29  1:56       ` Herbert Xu
2003-01-29  6:21         ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-02 15:28           ` Bill Davidsen
2003-02-03  0:59             ` Rusty Russell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-18 19:46 Bill Davidsen

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