Re: [PATCH] arm64: vdso: fix and clean-up Makefile

[Will Deacon]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 02:04:23AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 9:45 PM Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 05:48:22PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > > - $(call if_changed,...) must have FORCE as a prerequisite
> > >
> > > - vdso.lds is a generated file, so it should be prefixed with
> > >   $(obj)/ instead of $(src)/.
> >
> > Hmm, this sounds quite alarming! How come out of tree builds seem to work
> > ok without this patch?
> 
> No, I do not mean like that.
> This is just cosmetic (at least for now).
> Kbuild conventionally use both $(obj) and $(src), but
> they are the same in most places.
> If you see the top of scripts/Makefile.build,
> $(src) is the same as $(obj).

Ah thanks, that makes much more sense. I'll queue this up for 5.2.

Will