From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753157AbYE1QXi (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 12:23:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752468AbYE1QX2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 12:23:28 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.238]:45716 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751457AbYE1QX0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 12:23:26 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=ZPxJS751KtPov3McZI5O34lkAs4U/k/PhkxVkwDcI4voFQhm+5KNAMkX8EdOZ+DarMDpJ925+N1CHYCOnfV1RmBM/AMQpMqp9TVko2RYEwde6uAhz5dh14j2OQStwcDoK9oDc8e9ne7xpi6K/AceARkPe/el+fdt7dVIIEUitKw= Message-ID: <6844644e0805280923q6ae8fdd6pcf92f726f420afe4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 12:23:25 -0400 From: "Doug Reiland" To: linux-kernel Subject: Kbuild changes since 2.6.21?? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org There are some makefiles that look at CONFIG_XXXX variables to make decisions. For example, drivers/power/Makefile has the following lines: ifeq ($(CONFIG_SYSFS),y) power_supply-objs += power_supply_sysfs.o endif If I run make clean or make mrproper, it doesn't see CONFIG_SYSFS set anymore so it doesn't cleanup power_supply_sysfs.o. This is for 2.6.25, but I think this use to work for 2.6.21. I am using drivers/power/Makefile as an example, but I am seeing the same thing for my driver's Makefile. Thanks in advance.