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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:18:12 -0800
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Subject: Re: [RFC]compat-wireless: modules declared as PHONY target in
	Makefile
To: Bala Shanmugam <sbalashanmugam@atheros.com>
Cc: Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@atheros.com>,
	mcgrof@bombadil.infradead.org,
	Jothikumar Mothilal <Jothikumar.Mothilal@atheros.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Bala Shanmugam
<sbalashanmugam@atheros.com> wrote:
> When a particular file alone is modified in compat package, it is not compiled with make.
> To compile the modified file compat package needs to be cleaned up and all files need to be compiled.
> This is because all files are compiled in modules target, and file by name modules is not generated.
> So this target will be considered up-to-date once compiled.
>
> modules target is declared as PHONY target to avoid this problem.
>
> I feel config.mk need not be included when KERNELRELEASE is not NULL as
> it degrades the performance and doesn't make any difference.  Please comment.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bala Shanmugam <sbalashanmugam@atheros.com>

I was wondering what caused that to happen, thanks applied.

  Luis