Commit f110e5a250e3 ("kbuild: refactor single builds of *.ko") was wrong. KBUILD_MODULES _is_ needed for single builds. Otherwise, "make foo/bar/baz/" does not build module objects at all. Fixes: f110e5a250e3 ("kbuild: refactor single builds of *.ko") Reported-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 85a63a1d29b3..48a005fc69ca 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1978,6 +1978,8 @@ endif single-goals := $(addprefix $(build-dir)/, $(single-no-ko)) +KBUILD_MODULES := 1 + endif # Preset locale variables to speed up the build process. Limit locale -- 2.34.1