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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     Elliot Berman <eberman@codeaurora.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] Kbuild: Support nested composite objects
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On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 11:27:16AM -0800, Elliot Berman wrote:
> This series was developed after discussion in https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/1/19/850
> 
> The motivation for this series is an out-of-tree module which contains a large
> number of source files. This causes Kbuild to exceed the maximum command line
> argument length when linking the files. Proposal here permits composite objects

Please don't even try to bloat the kernel build system for this.
Thanks!