Re: [tree] ftrace, v16

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:18:18AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Ingo
> > 
> > >       kbuild: create new CFLAGS_REMOVE_(basename).o option
> > 
> > But no changes to Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
> > 
> > Documentation must be included for new kbuild features.
> > 
> > 
> > > +ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
> > > +CFLAGS_REMOVE_ftrace.o = -pg
> > > +endif
> > 
> > I can see where this comes from as we have:
> > 
> >     CFLAGS_ftrace.o := -foobar
> > 
> > But in all cases below I see the pattern:
> > 
> > ifdef CONFIG_FOO_BAR
> > CFLAGS_REMOVE_foobar.o = -pg
> > endif
> > 
> > And it would be nice to get this on one line instead.
> > And use a syntax we can somehow remember.
> > 
> > Today we have:
> >     ccflags-y := -foobar
> > 
> > to add options valid for the whole file.
> > So we should then add:
> > - possibility to remove an option valid for the whole file
> > - add/remove an option for a single file
> > 
> > The suggested syntax:
> > ccflags-remove-y := -foobar
> > ccflags-<file.o>-y := -foobar
> > ccflags-remove-<file.o>-y := -foobar
> > 
> > So in the case above for ftrace we would use:
> > 
> > ccflags-remove-ftrace.o-$(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) := -pg
> > 
> > Comments?
> 
> sounds like a good cleanup to me. Would you be interested in sending 
> patches for this?

Will do - but need to fix -next breakage first and a few other things.

	Sam