Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Replacement for "make SUBDIRS=...." in 2.5.63? | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | 28 Feb 2003 16:05:58 +0000 |
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On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 17:04, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> > What is the proper way to rebuild just one subdirectory? How > > about for building externally provided modules? > > The proper way is "make vmlinux/modules". If you are sure that nothing > changed outside of that directory, make SUBDIRS=... is fine, but since > kbuild cannot know that nothing else changed (you just prohibited checking > the other dirs), it'll give the warning.
In the case where you're building external modules, this is just fine -- generally you're doing this on purpose. How about disabling the warning if every element of $(SUBDIRS) starts with a '/'?
> I hope that clarifies things a bit. As I wrote earlier, I'll come up with > a proper and simple way to build external modules once I find the time.
If you deprecate 'make SUBDIRS=/my/module/source modules' then please make sure whatever replacement you come up with also works with 2.0, 2.2 and 2.4 kernels, to avoid gratuitous pain for driver maintainers. :)
-- dwmw2
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