From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kbuild: shorthand ym2y, ym2m etc
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:44:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050130224452.G25000@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050130223926.GG14816@mars.ravnborg.org>; from sam@ravnborg.org on Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:39:26PM +0100
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:39:26PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:52:30PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > obj-$(CONFIG_FB)$(CONFIG_PPC) += macmodes.o
> >
> > would be a lot more obvious, but I'm not sure how to handle
> > it for the case where one of them evaluates to m
>
> The real problem is when say CONFIG_FB are empty. Then kbuild will see:
> obj-$(CONFIG_PPC) which I doubt was what you wanted.
>
> This can be fixed by changing Kconfig to evaluate all known symbols to
> either y,m,n - in contradiction to today where symbols that evaluate
> to n is left empty.
Isn't that rather hard to achieve, unless all Kconfig files (including
all architecture specific ones) are read? Eg, CONFIG_PPC wouldn't
exist on ARM.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-30 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-30 19:37 kbuild: shorthand ym2y, ym2m etc Sam Ravnborg
2005-01-30 19:48 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2005-01-30 19:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-01-30 22:39 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-01-30 22:44 ` Russell King [this message]
2005-01-30 22:51 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-01-30 22:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-01-30 22:59 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-01-31 1:57 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
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