linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/2] Kbuild: Support nested composite objects

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Message-ID: <20210127155102.GA1709780@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:51:02 +0000
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Elliot Berman <eberman@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
        Trilok Soni <tsoni@...eaurora.org>,
        Mahesh Kumar Kalikot Veetil <mkalikot@...eaurora.org>,
        Jeff Johnson <jjohnson@...eaurora.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] Kbuild: Support nested composite objects

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 11:27:16AM -0800, Elliot Berman wrote:
> This series was developed after discussion in https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/1/19/850
> 
> The motivation for this series is an out-of-tree module which contains a large
> number of source files. This causes Kbuild to exceed the maximum command line
> argument length when linking the files. Proposal here permits composite objects

Please don't even try to bloat the kernel build system for this.
Thanks!