On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 02:55:20PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > This set of patches makes it possible to build a module from > code in multiple directories without needing to list files from one > directory in the Makefile of another directory. > > The code was developed for lustre (which is now out-of-tree :-( ) but > can be useful elsewhere, such as for xfs and btrfs and others. > > In fs/xfs/Makefile the section: > > xfs-y += $(addprefix libxfs/, \ > xfs_ag.o \ > xfs_alloc.o \ > ..... > > could become > > xfs-y += libxfs/ > > and then in fs/xfs/libxfs/Makefile we would have > > modobj-$(CONFIG_XFS_FS) += xfs_ag.o \ > xfs_alloc.o \ > ..... > > A similar process could move filenames for scrub/* from the > fs/xfs/Makefile to fs/xfs/scrub/Makefile
How about you actually convert it as an example?
