Currently, Kbuild always operates in the output directory of the kernel,
even when building external modules. This increases the risk of external
module Makefiles attempting to write to the kernel directory.
This commit switches the working directory to the external module
directory, allowing the removal of the $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/ prefix from
some build artifacts.
The command for building external modules maintains backward
compatibility, but Makefiles that rely on working in the kernel
directory may break. In such cases, $(objtree) and $(srctree) should
be used to refer to the output and source directories of the kernel.
The appearance of the build log will change as follows:
[Before]
$ make -C /path/to/my/linux M=/path/to/my/externel/module
make: Entering directory '/path/to/my/linux'
CC [M] /path/to/my/externel/module/helloworld.o
MODPOST /path/to/my/externel/module/Module.symvers
CC [M] /path/to/my/externel/module/helloworld.mod.o
CC [M] /path/to/my/externel/module/.module-common.o
LD [M] /path/to/my/externel/module/helloworld.ko
make: Leaving directory '/path/to/my/linux'
[After]
$ make -C /path/to/my/linux M=/path/to/my/externel/module
make: Entering directory '/path/to/my/linux'
make[1]: Entering directory '/path/to/my/externel/module'
CC [M] helloworld.o
MODPOST Module.symvers
CC [M] helloworld.mod.o
CC [M] .module-common.o
LD [M] helloworld.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory '/path/to/my/externel/module'
make: Leaving directory '/path/to/my/linux'
Printing "Entering directory" twice is cumbersome. This will be
addressed later.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
Some documents are refering to others without links. With this
patch I add those missing links.
This patch affects only documents under process/ and labels where
necessary.
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Fix install instruction by adding `./autogen` command
before `./configure`.
* Add link to a more detailed installation instruction.
* Add link to SmPL grammar documentation.
* Add single space after ',' to slightly improve readability.
Signed-off-by: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull Kbuild misc updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Clean up and fix RPM package build
- Fix a warning in DEB package build
- Improve coccicheck script
- Improve some semantic patches
* tag 'kbuild-misc-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
docs: dev-tools: coccinelle: delete out of date wiki reference
coccinelle: orplus: reorganize to improve performance
coccinelle: use exists to improve efficiency
builddeb: Pass the kernel:debarch substvar to dpkg-genchanges
Coccinelle: use false positive annotation
coccinelle: fix verbose message about .cocci file being run
coccinelle: grep Options and Requires fields more precisely
Coccinelle: make DEBUG_FILE option more useful
coccinelle: api: detect identical chip data arrays
coccinelle: Improve setup_timer.cocci matching
Coccinelle: setup_timer: improve messages from setup_timer
kbuild: rpm-pkg: do not force -jN in submake
kbuild: rpm-pkg: keep spec file until make mrproper
kbuild: rpm-pkg: fix jobserver unavailable warning
kbuild: rpm-pkg: replace $RPM_BUILD_ROOT with %{buildroot}
kbuild: rpm-pkg: fix build error when CONFIG_MODULES is disabled
kbuild: rpm-pkg: refactor mkspec with here doc
kbuild: rpm-pkg: clean up mkspec
kbuild: rpm-pkg: install vmlinux.bz2 unconditionally
kbuild: rpm-pkg: remove ppc64 specific image handling
There is no Coccinelle version 1.2. 1.0.2 must be what was intended.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
