linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] globally ignore Module.symvers

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Message-Id: <201004201521.46107.ffainelli@freebox.fr>
Date:	Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:21:46 +0200
From:	Florian Fainelli <ffainelli@...ebox.fr>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] globally ignore Module.symvers

On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:20:05 Michal Marek wrote:
> On 19.4.2010 16:42, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > If we build using make SUBDIRS=foo/ Kbuild will output per-directory
> > Module.symvers files that we do not want to keep track of. Ignore these
> > files globally.
> 
> SUBDIRS= or M= is meant for external modules, which generate their own
> Module.symvers. If you only need to build a part of the kernel sources,
> use 'make dir/'.

I was not aware of that, thank you Michal.
--
Florian
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