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kbuild: remove trailing slashes from $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)
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M= (or KBUILD_EXTMOD) generally expects a directory path without any
trailing slashes, like M=a/b/c.

If you add a trailing slash, like M=a/b/c/, you will get ugly build
logs (two slashes in a series), but it still works fine as long as it
is consistent between 'make modules' and 'make modules_install'.

The following commands correctly build and install the modules.

  $ make M=a/b/c/ modules
  $ sudo make M=a/b/c/ modules_install

Since commit ccae4cf ("kbuild: refactor scripts/Makefile.modinst"),
a problem happens if you add a trailing slash only for modules_install.

  $ make M=a/b/c modules
  $ sudo make M=a/b/c/ modules_install

No module is installed in this case, Johannes Berg reported. [1]

Trim any trailing slashes from $(KBUILD_EXTMOD).

I used the 'dirname' command to remove all the trailing slashes in
case someone adds more slashes like M=a/b/c/////. The Make's built-in
function, $(dir ...) cannot take care of such a case.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/10cc8522b27a051e6a9c3e158a4c4b6414fd04a0.camel@sipsolutions.net/

Fixes: ccae4cf ("kbuild: refactor scripts/Makefile.modinst")
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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masahir0y authored and gregkh committed Jul 20, 2021
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Expand Up @@ -129,6 +129,11 @@ endif
$(if $(word 2, $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)), \
$(error building multiple external modules is not supported))

# Remove trailing slashes
ifneq ($(filter %/, $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)),)
KBUILD_EXTMOD := $(shell dirname $(KBUILD_EXTMOD).)
endif

export KBUILD_EXTMOD

# Kbuild will save output files in the current working directory.
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