Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 18:30:33 +0400
Message-Id: <200107071430.f67EUXq07488@linuxhacker.ru>
From: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
To: kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: 2.4.6 PCMCIA NET modular build breakage
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107071520250.1054-100000@vaio>
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Hello!

>> Seems like its something that appeared between 2.4.5 and 2.4.6.  Anyone
>> know the correct fix, other than reversing the change?
KG> It should be fine.
It is not.

>> Since all net cards are modules, object list for pcmcia_net.o is empty and
>> kernel can't be linked.
KG> Could you reproduce this? (I don't think you can)
Sure, I can. First thing I did was in fact to try and reproduce that.

KG> Rules.make takes care of an empty $(obj-y) and builds an empty $(O_TARGET) 
KG> file in this case, so linking this in should work fine.
Hmm....
(examining Makefile...)
I see. So there cannot be usual targets before including Rules.make,
and my copy of the tree have these. And if I move them after inclusion,
everything builds just fine.
Perhaps it should be documented somewhere.

Well. So at the end it seems to be not a vanilla kernel problem. That's good.

Bye,
    Oleg
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