From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760187AbYEET5t (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 15:57:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753689AbYEET5k (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 15:57:40 -0400 Received: from pasmtpb.tele.dk ([80.160.77.98]:54142 "EHLO pasmtpB.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753568AbYEET5k (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 15:57:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 21:58:15 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Peter Oberparleiter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net, ltp-coverage@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/6] kbuild: convert include and source paths Message-ID: <20080505195815.GD8868@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <481F26AA.4050701@de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <481F26AA.4050701@de.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 05:24:26PM +0200, Peter Oberparleiter wrote: > From: Peter Oberparleiter > > Modify kbuild to convert relative include and source paths to absolute > form. Also change the module versioning mechanism to alter object file > names only after compiling. > > Required by the gcov profiling infrastructure: source paths are > referenced by the compiled object files. Using relative paths or > object file names which are different from the source name would > prevent the gcov tool from finding the corresponding source files. For the relative path issue do you really fix this at the right place? I would say that teaching gcov tool from where to look would be better. > Also change the module versioning mechanism to alter object file > names only after compiling. Can I get this as a separate patch please. It may be general useful and makes sense to look at alone. Sam