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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:20:05 +0200
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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To: Florian Fainelli <ffainelli@freebox.fr>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] globally ignore Module.symvers
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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/'.

Michal