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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Specific processing during user space header generation
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:55:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D547B0C.9020508@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110210055459.GA31333@merkur.ravnborg.org>

On 02/09/2011 09:54 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:06:07PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> I'm stuck with a problem where a header needs specific postprocessing in
>> addition to what headers_install.pl does.  Is that possible as things
>> currently sit, or will that require changes to the core kbuild scripts?
> You will nned to patch core kbuild.
> We do no processing apart from headers_install.pl - so there is no place
> to hook in.
> And headers_install.pl has not been prepared to do any tricks like that.

Would you (plural) consider a patchset looking something like:

when processing foo.h, also look for foo.h.pl; if so, invoke that from
inside headers_install.pl?

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-10 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-10  0:06 Specific processing during user space header generation H. Peter Anvin
2011-02-10  5:54 ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-02-10 23:55   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-02-11 15:13     ` Michal Marek
2011-02-11 19:14     ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-02-11 20:08       ` H. Peter Anvin

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