The objects in $(iwlwifi-objs) $(iwlwifi-y) $(iwlwifi-m) are linked to iwlwifi.ko . This line adds $(iwlwifi-m) to iwlwifi-objs, so the objects from $(iwlwifi-m) are listed twice as the dependency of the module. It works because Kbuild trims the duplicated objects from linking, but there is no good reason to have this line. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/Makefile | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/Makefile b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/Makefile index 0aae3fa4128c..a018d27a5410 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/Makefile +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/Makefile @@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ iwlwifi-$(CONFIG_IWLMVM) += fw/paging.o fw/smem.o fw/init.o iwlwifi-$(CONFIG_ACPI) += fw/acpi.o iwlwifi-$(CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS) += fw/debugfs.o -iwlwifi-objs += $(iwlwifi-m) - iwlwifi-$(CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING) += iwl-devtrace.o ccflags-y += -I$(src) -- 2.17.1