Re: [PATCH 1/2] Drivers: hid: Makefile: Cleaned up Makefile

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:28:19PM -0500, Tracey Dent wrote:
> On 11/15/10, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Tracey Dent wrote:
> >
> >> Changed Makefile to use <modules>-y instead of <modules>-objs because
> >> -objs is deprecated and should now be switched. According to
> >> (documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt).
> >
> > Actually, where exactly does this file document it?
> >
> 
> It documents how it should be done in the section entitled --- 3.7
> Compilation flags (which starts on line 284).
> 

Actually the only reference I could find is in 3.3:

        If a kernel module is built from several source files, you specify
        that you want to build a module in the same way as above; however,
        kbuild needs to know which object files you want to build your
        module from, so you have to tell it by setting a $(<module_name>-y)
        variable.

See commit 4f8272802739f5c6ce6b0a548810a181d2f1b652 for reasoning behind
the change.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry