Re: [PATCH -mm 18/43] powerpc compat_binfmt_elf

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 12:51:06PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 12:56:09AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 03:58:16AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > > +obj-$(CONFIG_PPC64)		+= ../../../fs/compat_binfmt_elf.o
> > > 
> > > Building files from another directory is nasty.  Please add a
> > > CONFIG_BINFMT_COMPAT_ELF so we can simply build it in fs/
> > 
> > If that's better, please post the precise Kconfig magic you have in mind to
> > have it set when it should be.
Kyle made a proposal but I like to get in to the party too...

> > 
> 
> Just taking a stab that hch means,
> 
> config BINFMT_COMPAT_ELF
> 	def_bool n
> 	depends on 64BIT
> 
> and then in arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> 
> config COMPAT
> 	bool
> 	default y if PPC64
> 	select BINFMT_COMPAT_ELF
> 
> or somesuch.

We recently discussed a common prefix for the selctable symbols
and consensus pointed out "HAVE_" so let us try to use it.
I did not quite understand the "depends on 64BIT" in Kyles example.
Does we really want to use compat_binfmt_elf for all archs that
define 64BIT? Anyway I added this in the example below.

fs/Makefile:
obj-$(COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF) += compat_binfmt_elf.o

fs/Kconfig:
config COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF
	depends on HAVE_COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF || 64BIT

# COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF must be selected when an
# architecture supoorts ...
config HAVE_COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF


arch/powerpc/Kconfig:

config COMPAT
	bool
	default PPC64
	select HAVE_COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF


In the example above the extra indirection:
HAVE_COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF => COMPAT_BNFMT_ELF is not really needed
but tomorrow when we add another "depends on" to COMPAT_INFMT_ELF
it is needed to avoid the misbehaving select that just ignore the
dependencies and select the symbol anyway.

	Sam