Re: [patch, -git] drivers/media build fix for modular builds

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:37:28AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > drivers/media is special because it does not contain any files. Kbuild 
> > will generate a built-in.o file only if there is a chance for a .o 
> > file in the directory.
> > 
> > When all media is modules kbuild does not know enough to say that a 
> > built-in.o is needed in drivers/media/ and the workaround to do a 
> > obj-y := common/ is the best way to do so.
> 
> ok, good. Should be an exceedingly rare situation, we dont have _that_ 
> many driver sub-trees.
> 
> Can we take this as a:
> 
>   Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Yes.

	Sam
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