Re: [RFC] Move InfiniBand .h files

Christopher Friesen
2005-08-04T19:57:26Z

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:57:55AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:

>>Sorry, I was too terse about the problem. You're right, but typical
>>distros don't ship full kernel source in their "support kernel builds"
>>package. And if I use an external build directory (ie "O=") then
>>the symlink just points to my external build directory, which doesn't
>>include the source to drivers/, just links to include/
>
>
> If the external module uses a Kbuild file as explained in
> Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt and then uses both O= and M=
> when compiling the module there is no issue.
>
> With respect to moving the .h files - please do so.
> drivers/infiniband should only include header used in that same
> directory. Not header files potentially uased by fs/.

I think Roland was talking about the case where the running kernel was
built with "O=", in which case the /lib/modules.../build symlink points
to the build directory rather than the original source tree.

Does Kbuild handle this case properly?

Chris