Dne 10.12.2015 v 21:46 Sam Ravnborg napsal(a): > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 09:44:45AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: >> We have three drivers (one fbdev, two drm), each of which can be built >> as a module. But each of them also may require small boot-time setup, >> which needs to be built-in. >> >> I can get around the problem by entering the dir with obj-y, or by >> creating a new extra config define which is y/n, and using that in the >> makefile. The former makes make enter the dir even if the driver is not >> enabled, and latter creates a config symbol only to solve this problem. > The extra config symbol is the most elegant solution here IMO. > Make sure to document that this config symbol enables the boot-time > setup stuff. Agreed. We could tech kbuild to look for built-in.o also in obj-m subdirs, but I'm quite sure it would break a Makefile or two. We had this case when adding support for modname-m recently, a couple of Makefiles did not expect this and broke. 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
