Commit 06300b21f4c7 ("kbuild: support building individual files for
external modules") introduced the '/' target. It works only for
external modules to build all .o files, but skip the modpost stage.
However, 'make /' looks a bit weird to me. 'make ./' is more sensible
if you want to build all objects under the current directory, and it
works as expected.
Let's change '/' into a phony target that is an alias of './', but
I may feel like deprecating it in the future.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt | 2 +-
Makefile | 5 +++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
index 3fb39e0..80295c6 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ executed to make module versioning work.
make -C $KDIR M=$PWD bar.lst
make -C $KDIR M=$PWD baz.o
make -C $KDIR M=$PWD foo.ko
- make -C $KDIR M=$PWD /
+ make -C $KDIR M=$PWD ./
=== 3. Creating a Kbuild File for an External Module
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index fe62de3..3956e93 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1709,8 +1709,9 @@ endif
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(build-dir) $(target-dir)$(notdir $@)
# Modules
-/: prepare FORCE
- $(Q)$(MAKE) KBUILD_MODULES=1 $(build)=$(build-dir)
+PHONY += /
+/: ./
+
# Make sure the latest headers are built for Documentation
Documentation/ samples/: headers_install
%/: prepare FORCE
--
2.7.4
