Re: Generating unistd_*.h

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 08/27/2011 03:18 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>
>> 1. Is there a better place than others to put these generated files
>>    (i.e. other than $(obj)/arch/x86/include/asm)?
> $(obj)/arch/x86/include/generated
> 
> This is what generic-y supports uses.
> 
>>
>> 2. Is there a better place than others to put the rules for generate
>>    these files?
>>
>> 3. There needs to be an arch-specific way to encode the dependency
>>    before asm-offsets.h is generated.  Preferences here?
> 
> Use "archprepare".
> 
> Something like this in arch/x86/Makefile:
> 
> archprepare: arch/x86/tools/syscall-magic.sh
> 	$(CONFIG_SHELL) $<
> 
> It should IIRC be execute before we try to create asm-offsets.h.
> So there is no dependency issues.
> 

I'll try this and see how it works out.  Sounds quite clean.

	-hpa


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