From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Generating unistd_*.h
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 04:48:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E58D99A.2050400@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110827101820.GA2990@merkur.ravnborg.org>
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
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-27 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-27 0:20 Generating unistd_*.h H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-27 10:18 ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-08-27 11:48 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-08-30 20:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-30 21:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-30 21:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-31 14:01 ` Michal Marek
2011-08-31 16:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-11-04 0:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
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