On 11.8.2013 23:39, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > On 2013-08-09 13:42 +0200, Sam Ravnborg spake thusly: >> If we drop the special handling of "MODULES" and introduced >> the following in we may fix it - hopefully: >> >> config MODULES >> option modules >> >> The option handling is already in place. It is even documented :-) > > Yes, indeed, that one is pretty easy! :-) > >> At least we could then drop the sym_lookup here (zconf.y): >> if (!modules_sym->prop) { >> struct property *prop; >> >> prop = prop_alloc(P_DEFAULT, modules_sym); >> prop->expr = expr_alloc_symbol(sym_lookup("MODULES", 0)); >> } >> Without the sym_lookup I think the symbol will not be defined and tus not marked valid. > > Sorry, I don't understand what we should do here. > > From what I understand, here's what happens: > - there's no symbol that declared the 'modules' option, so the > modules_sym->prop is NULL; > - so we look for the symbol 'MODULES' and use that as the symbol used > to evaluate if tristates are enabled. > > So, now we have 'option modules' added to MODULES, we never enter this > if() condition. > > But what would happen to other projects that do not have a symbol set > with 'option modules' and no 'MODULES' symbol? Surely, those projects do > not need tristates, but what should the code do in this case? > > So, I don't know what to replace this 'sym_lookup("MODULES", 0)' with. If the Kconfig files do not provide any symbol with 'option modules', then set modules_sym to a dummy bool with the value 'n'? Thanks, Michal -- 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