On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 09:31:27PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > There is an increasing amount of header files > > shared between individual architectures in asm-generic. > > To avoid a lot of dummy wrapper files that just > > include the corresponding file in asm-generic provide > > some basic support in kbuild for this. > > Looks almost perfect to me now. > > I was about to reply with Reviewed-by, but then it occurred to me > that scripts/asm-generic.sh is really much more complicated > than doing the same in Makefile syntax. > > You already create the wrapper files during headers-install, so why > not also create them from make, where we already have access to the > file lists in a convenient format. > > Or is there a problem getting at stuff defined in the Kbuild files > from the prepare stage? My main issue it that I wanted to offload functionality from the top-level Makefile. It contains too much weird stuff already. I considered writing asm-generic.sh as a small Makefile but decided for a shell script because there are more people confident in shell scripts than in Makefile syntax. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
