Re: [PATCH 6/7] drivers: oprofile: Avoids building driver from direct make command

Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Sep 2018 09:26:09 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.oprofile,gmane.linux.ports.parisc
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Leonardo Brás wrote:
> Creates new Makefile to avoid building driver if
> 'make drivers/oprofile/' is called directly.
> 
> This driver is usually built from arch/$ARCH and seems to have
> no meaning building alone.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leonardo Brás <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/oprofile/Makefile | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/oprofile/Makefile
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/Makefile b/drivers/oprofile/Makefile
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..6b36c93e9762
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/oprofile/Makefile
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +#Does nothing, since the source is called from arch/$ARCH/ tree.
> \ No newline at end of file
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Is that intentional or bogus?

Eike