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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 11:17:35 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Subject: Re: [oss-drivers] Re: [PATCH] kbuild: make Makefile|Kbuild in each
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 22:15:47 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> For your specific problem, please fix netronome/nfp/Makefile

Would you be able to suggest a way of splitting a module Makefile?
I failed to find a way of doing that.  The only solution I see is 
to create empty Makefiles in subdirectories (5 of them).