From: Guillaume Dore
There was a typo in adding-syscalls.rst that could mislead developers
to add a C filename in a makefile instead of an object filename.
This error, while not keeping developers from contributing could slow
the development process down by introducing build errors.
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Dore
---
Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst
b/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst
index 0d4f29bc798b..88a7d5c8bb2f 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ normally be optional, so add a ``CONFIG`` option (typically
to
by the option.
- Make the option depend on EXPERT if it should be hidden from normal users.
- Make any new source files implementing the function dependent on the CONFIG
- option in the Makefile (e.g. ``obj-$(CONFIG_XYZZY_SYSCALL) += xyzzy.c``).
+ option in the Makefile (e.g. ``obj-$(CONFIG_XYZZY_SYSCALL) += xyzzy.o``).
- Double check that the kernel still builds with the new CONFIG option turned
off.
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2.19.1
