From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754696Ab0DTNWj (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:22:39 -0400 Received: from zmc.proxad.net ([212.27.53.206]:42373 "EHLO zmc.proxad.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754675Ab0DTNWh (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:22:37 -0400 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.224 From: Florian Fainelli Organization: Freebox To: Michal Marek Subject: Re: [PATCH] globally ignore Module.symvers Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:21:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-20-server; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <201004191642.52517.ffainelli@freebox.fr> <4BCDAA05.50506@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <4BCDAA05.50506@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004201521.46107.ffainelli@freebox.fr> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:20:05 Michal Marek wrote: > On 19.4.2010 16:42, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > If we build using make SUBDIRS=foo/ Kbuild will output per-directory > > Module.symvers files that we do not want to keep track of. Ignore these > > files globally. > > SUBDIRS= or M= is meant for external modules, which generate their own > Module.symvers. If you only need to build a part of the kernel sources, > use 'make dir/'. I was not aware of that, thank you Michal. -- Florian