Hi, Replying to my own post (for future reference): --- On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 08:55:48PM +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote: | But, is it really required to generate eth.o? Is it possible to just | parse through the sources, produce the .xml output without having to | generate the object files? \-- I had to use: MAKEFLAGS+="--dry-run" make C=2 CHECK="c2xml > foo.xml" net/ethernet/eth.o > output.txt eval `tail -2 output.txt | head -1` SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html