On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 06:44:52PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On 2021/2/5 17:53, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 05:44:12PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote: > >> From: Junhao He <hejunhao2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> > >> Use subdir-ccflags-* instead of ccflags-* to inherit the debug > >> settings from Kconfig when traversing subdirectories. > > > > That says what you do, but not _why_ you are doing it. > > i'll illustrate the reason and reword the commit. > > > > > What does this offer in benefit of the existing way? What is it fixing? > > Why do this "churn"? > > currently we have added ccflags-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_DRIVER) := -DDEBUG in the Makefile > of driver/base and driver/base/power, but not in the subdirectory > driver/base/firmware_loader. we cannot turn the debug on for subdirectory > firmware_loader if we config DEBUG_DRIVER and there is no kconfig option > for the it. Is that necessary? Does that directory need it? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
