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From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Jason Riedy <jason@acm.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow building iwl3945 without iwl4965.
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:14:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1209521679.2827.23.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080429132720.GB4887@tuxdriver.com>

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 09:27 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> 
> > Do we have a way to make "select IWLWIFI" generate CONFIG_IWLWIFI
> with
> > the same state as CONFIG_IWLCORE (or CONFIG_IWL3945)? AFAICS,
> > CONFIG_IWLWIFI is always 'y' whenever CONFIG_IWLCORE is 'y' or 'm'.
> If
> > the latter is 'm', the Makefile will generate a empty built-in.o
> which
> > requires vmlinux to update unnecessarily every time we only compile
> > iwl3945/4965 modules.
> 
> Can you do something like  "default IWLCORE'?  Untested, off the top
> of my head...

I just realized the kernel now updates vmlinux when I type 'make' even
if nothing is changed in the source code. Is this a bug or feature?

Thanks,
-yi


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-30  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-26 22:27 [PATCH] Allow building iwl3945 without iwl4965 Jason Riedy
2008-04-27 22:43 ` David Miller
2008-04-29  2:19 ` Zhu Yi
2008-04-29 13:27   ` John W. Linville
2008-04-30  2:14     ` Zhu Yi [this message]
2008-04-30  2:17       ` David Miller
2008-04-30  2:31         ` Zhu Yi
2008-04-30  2:32           ` David Miller
2008-04-30  4:46             ` Bill Fink
2008-04-30  2:36       ` Randy.Dunlap
2008-04-30  9:34         ` Zhu Yi
2008-05-02 15:07           ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-04  1:50             ` Zhu Yi
2008-05-05 18:25   ` [2.6 patch] make IWLWIFI a tristate Adrian Bunk
2008-05-05 19:40     ` David Miller
2008-05-05 19:42       ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-06  1:26     ` Zhu Yi
2008-05-06  7:05       ` David Miller

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