linux-kernel - Re: Proper use for linking foo.o_shipped after 69ea912fda74 ("kbuild: remove unneeded link_multi

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Message-ID: <365fcf52-8132-24eb-80d0-bb212a3534f1@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 May 2020 15:10:17 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>
Subject: Re: Proper use for linking foo.o_shipped after 69ea912fda74 ("kbuild:
 remove unneeded link_multi_deps")?



On 5/6/2020 9:24 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> To me this is a regression, as it used to work and now it does not, thus
>> we should be fixing it, any idea about how we go about it without doing
>> a plain revert?
> 
> 
> In fact, a patch exists.
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11318691/
> 
> It allows you to link whatever file name to a module,
> but please read the comments from Christoph and Greg.
> 
> 
> In this case, your Makefile is doing strange.
> 
> I'd recommend to fix your Makefile.

Yes, I ended up finding a way to fix it, thank you for your time.
-- 
Florian