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* [PATCH 5.4] kbuild: Fix include path in scripts/Makefile.modpost
@ 2022-08-31  4:17 Nicolas Schier
  2022-09-01 10:20 ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Schier @ 2022-08-31  4:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: stable; +Cc: Jing Leng, Masahiro Yamada, Nicolas Schier

From: Jing Leng <jleng@ambarella.com>

commit 23a0cb8e3225122496bfa79172005c587c2d64bf upstream.

When building an external module, if users don't need to separate the
compilation output and source code, they run the following command:
"make -C $(LINUX_SRC_DIR) M=$(PWD)". At this point, "$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)"
and "$(src)" are the same.

If they need to separate them, they run "make -C $(KERNEL_SRC_DIR)
O=$(KERNEL_OUT_DIR) M=$(OUT_DIR) src=$(PWD)". Before running the
command, they need to copy "Kbuild" or "Makefile" to "$(OUT_DIR)" to
prevent compilation failure.

So the kernel should change the included path to avoid the copy operation.

Signed-off-by: Jing Leng <jleng@ambarella.com>
[masahiro: I do not think "M=$(OUT_DIR) src=$(PWD)" is the official way,
but this patch is a nice clean up anyway.]
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
[nsc: updated context for v5.4]
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
---
 scripts/Makefile.modpost | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
index 48585c4d04ad..0273bf7375e2 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
@@ -87,8 +87,7 @@ obj := $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)
 src := $(obj)
 
 # Include the module's Makefile to find KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
-include $(if $(wildcard $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Kbuild), \
-             $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Kbuild, $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Makefile)
+include $(if $(wildcard $(src)/Kbuild), $(src)/Kbuild, $(src)/Makefile)
 
 # modpost option for external modules
 MODPOST += -e
-- 
2.37.2


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