Re: distributed module configuration [Was: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))]

Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-14T22:38:37Z

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:56:13AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday 13. February 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> > config foo
> > tristate "do you want foo?"
> > depends on USB && BAR
> > module
> > obj-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo.o
> > foo-y := file1.o file2.o
> > help
> > foo will allow you to explode your PC
>
> I'm more thinking about something like this:
>
> module foo [FOO]
> tristate "do you want foo?"
> depends on USB && BAR
> source file1.c
> source file2.c if BAZ
>
> Avoiding direct Makefile fragments would give us far more flexibility in the
> final Makefile output.

Much better and now I see it I recall you posted something
along these lines before.
Is this something that you plan to look into implementing?

I can do the kbuild bits but I need you to do the kconfig
stuff (which is by far the biggest effort too).

It would be much appreciated to get this.

Sam