Re: [patch, -git] drivers/media build fix for modular builds

Ingo Molnar
2008-04-30T09:38:22Z

* Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:

> drivers/media is special because it does not contain any files. Kbuild
> will generate a built-in.o file only if there is a chance for a .o
> file in the directory.
>
> When all media is modules kbuild does not know enough to say that a
> built-in.o is needed in drivers/media/ and the workaround to do a
> obj-y := common/ is the best way to do so.

ok, good. Should be an exceedingly rare situation, we dont have _that_
many driver sub-trees.

Can we take this as a:

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

? :-)

Ingo