Bug 680976 – linux-mod.eclass: add support for kernel > 3.x in use_m()

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Fabio Rossi 2019-03-19 22:30:29 UTC]

Created attachment 569916 [details, diff]
linux-mod.eclass.patch

SUBDIRS= will be removed from Linux 5.3

The linux-mod.eclass includes the function convert_to_m() that is supposed to fix Makefiles converting them from SUBDIRS= to M=. The auxiliary function use_m(), needed by convert_to_m(), is used to verify the kernel version before deciding to patch a file. Currently the check supports only kernel <= 3

Included a simple patch to solve the issue

[Comment 1 Mike Pagano 2019-06-11 15:12:09 UTC]

Thanks for the patch, Fabio.

Author: Mike Pagano <[e-mail]>
Date:   Tue Jun 11 11:07:09 2019 -0400

    linux-mod.eclass: Add support for kernels >=3.X in convert_to_m
    
    SUBDIRS= will be removed from Linux 5.3. See bug #680976
    
    The linux-mod.eclass includes the function convert_to_m() that is supposed
    to fix Makefiles converting them from SUBDIRS= to M=. The auxiliary
    function use_m(), needed by convert_to_m(), is used to verify the kernel
    version before deciding to patch a file. Currently the check supports only
    kernel <= 3
    
    Thanks to Fabio Rossi
    
    Signed-off-by: Mike Pagano <[e-mail]>