On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 11:36:27AM -0800, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 10:57:18AM +0100, Nicolas Schier wrote: > > > > can you please describe a concrete problem you want to solve with your > > patch set? Masahiro already asked in [1], and I still don't get your > > motivation while reading your cover letter. It would be helpful to see > > your goal when looking at your patches. > > I'm trying to develop an alternative kernel build system for one Linux > distribution. Due to how other pieces of the distribution work it seems > using the out-of-tree build mechanism to build in-tree modules may be a > better approach. This may be abusing the current build system, but if it > works without breaking anything else that should be acceptable. oh well. You are probably aware of things like subdir-ccflags-y and that kmods built via M= are considered to be out-of-tree and taint the kernel. Good luck. Kind regards, Nicolas
