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    kbuild: add more hints about SUBDIRS replacement · 4e8fc3f5
    Masahiro Yamada authored
    Commit 0126be38 ("kbuild: announce removal of SUBDIRS if used")
    added a hint about the 'SUBDIRS' replacement, but it was not clear
    enough.
    
    Multiple people sent me similar questions, patches. For instance,
    
      https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/1/17/456
    
    I did not mean to use M= for building a subdirectory in the kernel tree.
    
    From commit 669efc76 ("net: hns3: fix compile error"), people
    already (ab)use M=... to do that because it seems to work to some extent.
    
    Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt says M= and KBUILD_EXTMOD are used for
    building external modules.
    
    In fact, Kbuild supports the single target '%/' for this purpose, but
    this may not be noticed much.
    
    Kindly add more hints.
    
    Makefile:213: ================= WARNING ================
    Makefile:214: 'SUBDIRS' will be removed after Linux 5.3
    Makefile:215:
    Makefile:216: If you are building an individual subdirectory
    Makefile:217: in the kernel tree, you can do like this:
    Makefile:218: $ make path/to/dir/you/want/to/build/
    Makefile:219: (Do not forget the trailing slash)
    Makefile:220:
    Makefile:221: If you are building an external module,
    Makefile:222: Please use 'M=' or 'KBUILD_EXTMOD' instead
    Makefile:223: ==========================================
    Suggested-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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