On 1/6/20 9:13 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
The objects in $(fb-objs) $(fb-y) $(fb-m) are linked to fb.ko .
This line adds $(fb-y) to fb-objs, so the objects from $(fb-y) are
listed twice as the dependency of the module.
It works because Kbuild trims the duplicated objects from linking,
but there is no good reason to have this line.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Patch queued for v5.6, thanks.
Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
drivers/video/fbdev/core/Makefile | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/Makefile b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/Makefile
index 37710316a680..26cbc965497c 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/Makefile
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ fb-y += fbcon_rotate.o fbcon_cw.o fbcon_ud.o \
fbcon_ccw.o
endif
endif
-fb-objs := $(fb-y)
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT) += cfbfillrect.o
obj-$(CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA) += cfbcopyarea.o