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From: omgalvan.86@gmail.com (Martin Galvan)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Building separate files for a kernel module
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 11:49:36 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN19L9GzpC3=OFjdsb1fBgaM9a3S2YUP6rtnAqqKmRsTM-fRJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50983.1522905998@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

2018-04-05 2:26 GMT-03:00  <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>:
> On Wed, 04 Apr 2018 18:29:21 -0300, Martin Galvan said:
>
>> PS: Yes, I'm aware I could just add $(bar-objs) to mydriver-y and
>> avoid building bar.a, but I really need to have those files as a
>> separate library.
>
> What's driving the requirement for a separate library?

I want my module to be DKMS-enabled, but since the 'bar' binaries
don't use anything Linux-specific I don't want to distribute the
sources for it. It's similar to the "_shipped" binary blobs the
documentation mentions, except in this case I want to use the kbuild
machinery to build it.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-05 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-04 21:29 Building separate files for a kernel module Martin Galvan
2018-04-05  5:26 ` valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
2018-04-05 14:49   ` Martin Galvan [this message]
2018-04-05 15:02     ` Greg KH
2018-04-09 17:19       ` Martin Galvan
2018-04-18 15:57         ` Daniel.
2018-04-18 15:57           ` Daniel.

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