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
next prev parent 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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