kbuild: support building external modules in a separate build directory

There has been a long-standing request to support building external
modules in a separate build directory.

This commit introduces a new environment variable, KBUILD_EXTMOD_OUTPUT,
and its shorthand Make variable, MO.

A simple usage:

 $ make -C <kernel-dir> M=<module-src-dir> MO=<module-build-dir>

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
This commit is contained in:
Masahiro Yamada
2024-11-10 10:34:35 +09:00
parent bad6beb2c0
commit 11b3d5175e
5 changed files with 35 additions and 11 deletions

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@@ -213,13 +213,11 @@ endif
# $(src) for including checkin headers from generated source files
# $(obj) for including generated headers from checkin source files
ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
ifdef building_out_of_srctree
_c_flags += $(addprefix -I, $(src) $(obj))
_a_flags += $(addprefix -I, $(src) $(obj))
_cpp_flags += $(addprefix -I, $(src) $(obj))
endif
endif
# If $(is-kernel-object) is 'y', this object will be linked to vmlinux or modules
is-kernel-object = $(or $(part-of-builtin),$(part-of-module))