On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 04:19:04PM -0700, matt mooney wrote: > On 19:50 Wed 29 Sep , Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 05:03:29PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote: > > > On 20.9.2010 08:33, matt mooney wrote: > > > > Change $(src) and $(obj) definitions to state the path as absolute and > > > > not relative. > > > > > > It _is_ a relative patch, AFAICS. What makes you think otherwise? > > > > With extenal modules $(src) and $(obj) are absolute - but in nomal > > use they are relative. Ah, I see. Then we should simply say "path", without any adjectives. > > And again in normal use they are also equal. I usually say that we > > have two just to document what is srource and what is generated. > > Ah, I see. Sorry, I should have looked into this more. Now you did say > in normal use they are equal, but I thought they were also equal when > used for an external module too. Yes, they are, using $(src) for shipped files and $(obj) for generated ones is just a service for the reader of the Makefile. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
