Re: 2.5.15 laziness in export-objs

[Patrick Mochel]

On Fri, 10 May 2002, Keith Owens wrote:

> 2.5.15 has four Makefiles where all objects are marked as exporting
> symbols.  This is lazy coding and causes spurious rebuilds.  Please
> specify only those objects that really export symbols.
> 
> Also the export list is independent of whether an object is selected or
> not.  That is, export-objs is unconditional.
> 
> fs/nls/Makefile:export-objs = $(obj-y)
> arch/i386/pci/Makefile:export-objs     +=      $(obj-y)
> drivers/base/Makefile:export-objs     := $(obj-y)
> drivers/pci/Makefile:export-objs := $(obj-y)

Here is the patch for drivers/base.

	-pat

===== drivers/base/Makefile 1.3 vs edited =====
--- 1.3/drivers/base/Makefile	Tue Mar 26 14:26:45 2002
+++ edited/drivers/base/Makefile	Fri May 10 09:24:33 2002
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 
 obj-y		:= core.o sys.o interface.o fs.o power.o
 
-export-objs	:= $(obj-y)
+export-objs	:= core.o fs.o power.o sys.o
 
 include $(TOPDIR)/Rules.make