Hi Christoph On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 03:55:31PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi Masahiro, hi Michal, > > I just got this beatiful warning: > > hch@carbon:~/work/xfs$ make -j4 SUBDIRS=fs/xfs > Makefile:189: ================= WARNING ================ > Makefile:190: 'SUBDIRS' will be removed after Linux 5.3 > Makefile:191: Please use 'M=' or 'KBUILD_EXTMOD' instead > Makefile:192: ========================================== > > Both the replacement seem to be geared towards building externals > modules. But what is the replacement for just building a directory > of the normal kernel tree? > > E.g. what hit this is that I rebased an XFS series, and wanted to > compile test just the xfs code for each step using > > make -j4 SUBDIRS=fs/xfs Try: make -j4 fs/xfs/ This is the recommend way to do so. Let us know if you see problem with this approach. Sam