Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Hüwe <> | Subject | TPM.ko module rename (was tpm: Pull everything related to /dev/tpmX into tpm-dev.c) | Date | Fri, 4 Oct 2013 17:50:01 +0200 |
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Am Donnerstag, 3. Oktober 2013, 07:05:04 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 01:14:18AM +0200, Peter H?we wrote: > > > I botched the makefile changes for the new .c files. > > > > > > I believe it should be like this: > > > > > > obj-$(CONFIG_TCG_TPM) += tpm-core.o > > > tpm-core-y := tpm.o tpm-dev.o tpm-sysfs.o > > > > > It looks like my solution changes the tpm module name to tpm-core.o. > This should be noted in the commit log: > > In doing so we also change the core tpm module name from 'tpm' to > 'tpm-core', this is because kbuild does not like it if a multi-file module > has a .c file of the same name. > > Is that OK? It follows the pattern other systems have in the kernel.
Hmm, I'm not 100% sure what's the usual procedure for module renames, especially since this is visible in userspace.
For users the easiest way would be to rename tpm.c to tpm-core.c and leave the module name as it is. In git that's just a simple rename operation.
Thanks, Peter
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