Hi - The drm/i915 [1][2] driver has grown quite big over the years: 400+ files with a total sloccount of 175k lines. A flat directory structure just wasn't manageable anymore, and we opted to add subdirectories, despite the general recommendation [3] not to do this. Mostly, it works all right, with some quirks. For example, things like $ make drivers/gpu/drm/i915/<subdir>/<file>.o do not work out of the box; we need to add subdir Makefiles to do things like: subdir-ccflags-y += -I$(srctree)/$(src)/.. and include them using obj-y += <subdir>/ in the top level Makefile. But the main problem really is having to have a top level Makefile specifying everything, instead of being able to recurse into subdirectoris with, say, lib-y += <subdir>/, and having that build a lib within the subdirectory that gets linked into the parent level module. Is there a better way? Could we have a better way? BR, Jani. [1] drivers/gpu/drm/i915 [2] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-tip/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/i915 [3] Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst section 4.3 -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
