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Revision 28f94a44298c99c0db85539874b62f21d94fcaa7 authored by Masahiro Yamada on 19 December 2019, 11:51:00 UTC, committed by Masahiro Yamada on 21 December 2019, 15:25:35 UTC
Kbuild descends into a directory by either 'y' or 'm', but there is an
important difference.

Kbuild combines the built-in objects into built-in.a in each directory.
The built-in.a in the directory visited by obj-y is merged into the
built-in.a in the parent directory. This merge happens recursively
when Kbuild is ascending back towards the top directory, then built-in
objects are linked into vmlinux eventually. This works properly only
when the Makefile specifying obj-y is reachable by the chain of obj-y.

On the other hand, Kbuild does not take built-in.a from the directory
visited by obj-m. This it, all the objects in that directory are
supposed to be modular. If Kbuild descends into a directory by obj-m,
but the Makefile in the sub-directory specifies obj-y, those objects
are just left orphan.

The current statement "Kbuild only uses this information to decide that
it needs to visit the directory" is misleading. Clarify the difference.

Reported-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
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History
Tip revision: 0cdd776ec92c0fec768c7079331804d3e52d4b27 authored by Linus Torvalds on 15 May 2022, 15:08:51 UTC
Merge tag 'driver-core-5.18-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Tip revision: 0cdd776
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