On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:53:33AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > Up until the last kernel version or so, I could do something like: > > make M=drivers/usb/misc/ > > and the kbuild system would automatically do the right thing by > removing the final '/'. Now it does not do so, and instead it ends up > unnecessarily compiling bogus files like > > CC [M] drivers/usb/misc//usbtest.o It behaves the same on 2.6.36 and 2.6.35, BUT this is not what the M variable is meant for. It should be used to build external modules, if you want to build only a part of the kernel tree, use make drivers/usb/misc Michal -- 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
