Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:20:14PM -0700, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Add Kconfig token "module_name" to supply module's name. Example:
config FOO
tristate "foo"
module_name foo
---help---
foo
Print module's name as following on menuconfigs help screen (press 'h'):
Module name: foo
8139too driver converted to show real-life example.
P.S.: menuconfig only, no checking wrt modular/standalone code et al.
...
We have 4 interfaces, and for not losing information all of them have to
support it.
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig~kconfig-add-module_name-shortcut
+++ a/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -1549,14 +1549,12 @@ config 8139TOO
depends on NET_PCI && PCI
select CRC32
select MII
+ module_name 8139too
---help---
This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on
the RTL 8129/8130/8139 chips. If you have one of those, say Y and
read the Ethernet-HOWTO <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
- To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
- will be called 8139too. This is recommended.
-
...
Are you planning any further usage of the module_name?
Currently your patch seems to be in menuconfig equivalent to
- To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
- will be called 8139too. This is recommended.
+ Module name: 8139too
I don't have any strong opinion whether that's better or worse, but if
that's the only change we don't need a new kconfig syntax for it.
This feature is very useful for auto configuration: from a lsmod you
will find easily the relevant configuration.
Actually I'm doing it with some complexer scripts, but some Makefile
are "creative".
I had some plan to include more building information to Kconfig
to automatically generating some part of Makefile's.
ciao
cate
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