[U-Boot] [U-Boot, v3, 02/15] kbuild: add a makefile macro useful with per-image config options

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 07:31:42AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

> Commit e02ee2548afe ("kconfig: switch to single .config
> configuration") made the configuration itself pretty simple,
> instead, we lost the way to systematically enable/disable config
> options for each image independently.
> 
> Our current strategy is, put entries into Makefile.spl for options
> we need separate enabling, or once enable the options globally in
> Kconfig and then undef them in Makefile.uncmd_spl if we do not want
> to compile the features for SPL at all.  Things are getting really
> messy.  Besides, "ifdef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD" are sprinkled everywhere
> in makefiles.
> 
> This commit adds a variable to help describe makefile simpler.
> 
> $(SPL_) evaluates to "SPL_" during the SPL build, while to an empty
> string during building U-boot proper.
> 
> So, you can write
> 
>   obj-$(CONFIG_$(SPL_)FOO) += foo.o
> 
> instead of
> 
>   ifdef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
>   obj-$(CONFIG_SPL_FOO) += foo.o
>   else
>   obj-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo.o
>   endif
> 
> If CONFIG_SPL_FOO does not exist in Kconfig, it is equivalent to
> 
>   ifndef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
>   obj-$(CONFIG_SPL_FOO) += foo.o
>   endif
> 
> This is the pattern we often see in our current makefiles.
> 
> To take advantage of this macro, we should prefix SPL_ for the SPL
> version of the option when we need independent control between
> U-boot and SPL.  With this naming scheme, I hope our makefiles will
> be much simplified.
> 
> It means we want to rename existing config options as follows
> in the long run:
> 
>   CONFIG_SPL_SERIAL_SUPPORT     -> CONFIG_SPL_SERIAL
>   CONFIG_SPL_I2C_SUPPORT        -> CONFIG_SPL_I2C
>   CONFIG_SPL_GPIO_SUPPORT       -> CONFIG_SPL_GPIO
>   CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUPPORT        -> CONFIG_SPL_SPI
>   CONFIG_SPL_DISABLE_OF_CONTROL -> CONFIG_SPL_OF_CONTROL
>                                       (inverting the logic)
> 
> Then drivers/Makefile would be re-worked as follows:
> 
>   obj-$(CONFIG_$(SPL_)SERIAL)  += serial/
>   obj-$(CONFIG_$(SPL_)I2C)     += i2c/
>   obj-$(CONFIG_$(SPL_)GPIO)    += gpio/
>   obj-$(CONFIG_$(SPL_)SPI)     += spi/
>      ...
> 
> Eventually, SPL-specialized entries in Makefile.spl would go away.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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