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From: Michal Marek <michal.marek@matfyz.cz>
To: "Zhao, Gang" <gamerh2o@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>,
	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] .gitignore: ignore Module.symvers in all directories
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:08:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140416210826.GA20810@fiji.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <415f152dbdb6d675ebca57afd8bfbc785a70cfd1.1397458539.git.gamerh2o@gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 02:56:15PM +0800, Zhao, Gang wrote:
> When using `make M=/path/to/driver modules` to build a module, file
> Module.symvers will be created in that directory, so it's better to
> ignore it in all directories.
> 
> Slightly reordered, let specific file names behind general ones.
> 
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Kyungsik Lee <kyungsik.lee@lge.com>
> Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
> Signed-off-by: Zhao, Gang <gamerh2o@gmail.com>

Note that the easier way to build a subtree of the kernel source is

  make path/to/driver/

including the trailing /. But the M=... syntax seems so widespread that
I have to apply this.

BTW: there is really no need to CC the last N people who touched
such a trivial file :).

Michal

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-16 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-14  6:56 Zhao, Gang
2014-04-16 21:08 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2014-04-17  9:17   ` Zhao, Gang

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