Re: how about KBUILD_MODNAME

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Tue Aug 03 2010 - 07:02:51 EST


On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 01:24:41PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 08/03/2010 01:15 PM, Américo Wang wrote:
> >
> > And it doesn't make sense to hold two drivers in one .c file.
> >
>
> I meant when two drivers share the same .c file. But instead of
> using a third common module they just share it by duplicating
> the code. example:
>
> <Kbuild>
> drv1-y := drv-one.o common.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_DRV1) += drv1.o
>
> drv2-y := drv-two.o common.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_DRV2) += drv2.o
> </Kbuild>
>
> When compiling common.o the KBUILD_MODNAME fails to be set

Correct - but I do not think this is relavent in this case.
The code snippet shown clearly indicates that the drivers
uses a 2.4 style Makefile. This will not work with 2.6.

Sam
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