Michal wrote: > > Ack on this part, I need to think a bit more about the second part :). > Could you please send two separate patches, they fix two independent > issues after all. > Here it the first patch resent. Thanks. This patch fixes the link error "built-in.o: no such file or directory". The problem happens if "dirx/Makefile" contains only "obj-m += diry/ dirz/" and the empty "dirx/built-in.o" is missing. Adding $(subdir-m) into check for builtin-target fixes this error. Signed-off-by: Jiafu He <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ----- diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build index 341b589..4926fee 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.build +++ b/scripts/Makefile.build @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ ifneq ($(strip $(lib-y) $(lib-m) $(lib-n) $(lib-)),) lib-target := $(obj)/lib.a endif -ifneq ($(strip $(obj-y) $(obj-m) $(obj-n) $(obj-) $(lib-target)),) +ifneq ($(strip $(obj-y) $(obj-m) $(obj-n) $(obj-) $(subdir-m) $(lib-target)),) builtin-target := $(obj)/built-in.o endif ----- -- 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