Re: Kbuild Makefile output

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:07:19PM +0530, murtuja bharmal wrote:
> Hello All.
> I want to collect all my object file in onedirectory and then want to create a kernel module.
> For example: This my directory structure.
> dir
> |
> --------------------------------------
> |            |        |        |
> dir1    dir2       dir3   dir4
> This is my makefile in 'dir'.
> obj-m := test.o
> test-objs += \
>                 dir1/test1.o  \
>                 dir2/test2.o  \
>                 dir3/test3.o
> all:
>             make -C /usr/src/linux M=`pwd` modules
> 
> Now I want to save all output objectfile test1.o test2.o test3.o in one directory
> called 'dir4' not in source directory. 'test.o' should look all this object file in 'dir4' for linking, not in the source directory and 'test.ko' should also be create in 'dir4'.
> Can any one tell me, what is require changes in Kernel Makefile for the same.

Do not do that...

If you really need to do so - please explain why so we can understand the rationale.
There are ~2000 modules that does not need this so what makes your maodule so special?

[Added kbuild@vger to cc as you also asked there]

	Sam