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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp.pl>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Mutli-directory module Makefiles
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 21:42:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180125204217.GA14181@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180122134607.00d77101@cakuba.netronome.com>

Hi Jakub.

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 01:46:07PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> in drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp there is a module which is built
> from C sources in 4 directories.  What is the best way to handle that?

Move all .c files to th same directory - like done for almost
all other drives.
In this case we have a directory: drivers/net/ethernet/netronome
which is just an indirection to nfp/
and nfp/ contains a structure with 25 .c files in subdirs.

With some careful renaming everything could reside in
one dir without loosing any structure.
And then the driver starts to look a bit
more like any other driver in the kernel.

And as an added benefit some of the other goodies like
building single files just works.

	Sam

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-25 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-22 21:46 Mutli-directory module Makefiles Jakub Kicinski
2018-01-25 13:08 ` Masahiro Yamada
2018-01-25 19:47   ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-01-27 22:28     ` Masahiro Yamada
2018-01-25 20:42 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]

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