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Message-ID: <6ac025de-9264-4510-ba7f-f9a56c564a80@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 15:35:26 +0200
From: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@...el.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
CC: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>,
	<intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Jesse Brandeburg
	<jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>, Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, "Richard
 Cochran" <richardcochran@...il.com>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, Jesper Dangaard Brouer
	<hawk@...nel.org>, John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 1/1] net: intel: Use *-y instead of *-objs in
 Makefile

From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 16:23:15 +0300

> *-objs suffix is reserved rather for (user-space) host programs while
> usually *-y suffix is used for kernel drivers (although *-objs works
> for that purpose for now).
> 
> Let's correct the old usages of *-objs in Makefiles.

Wait, I was sure I've seen somewhere that -objs is more new and
preferred over -y. See recent dimlib comment where Florian changed -y to
-objs for example.
Any documentation reference that -objs is for userspace and we should
clearly use -y?

Thanks,
Olek

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