linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: forbid kernel directory to contain spaces and colons

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Date:	Tue, 10 May 2016 17:05:55 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@...e.fr>
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: forbid kernel directory to contain spaces
	and colons

On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 09:38:53PM +0200, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> When the kernel path contains a space or a colon somewhere in the path
> name, the modules_install target doesn't work anymore, as the path names
> are not enclosed in double quotes. It is also supposed that and O= build
> will suffer from the same weakness as modules_install.
> 
> Instead of checking and improving kbuild to resist to directories
> including these characters, error out early to prevent any build if the
> kernel's main directory contains a space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@...e.fr>
> ---
> Since v1: add colon check as requested by Michal.
> ---
>  Makefile | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Applied to kbuild.git#kbuild.

Michal