On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 03:22:51AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > from "makefiles.txt": > > > > "Kbuild recognises objects used for composite objects by the suffix > > -objs, and the suffix -y." > > > > does that mean that those two suffixes are equivalent and functionally > > interchangeable in a kbuild makefile? > > yes - but the -y variant is preferred. > Which should be documented. ah, good. so when i'm explaining how to build out-of-tree, composite modules, historically, i've always used: obj-m = mymod.o mymod-objs := ....o files now, instead, i'll say: obj-m = mymod.o mymod-y := ....o files obviously, not a big deal. rday - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
