[+cc Masahiro, Michal, linux-kbuild, linux-kernel] On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 07:30:15PM +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. So I guess the current behavior is: If CONFIG_PCI_DEBUG=y, add -DDEBUG to CFLAGS in the current directory, but not in any subdirectories and the behavior after this patch is: If CONFIG_PCI_DEBUG=y, add -DDEBUG to CFLAGS in the current directory and any subdirectories Is that right? That makes sense to me. I wonder if any other places have this issue? 'git grep "^ccflags.*-DDEBUG"' finds a few cases where subdirectories use their own debug config options, e.g., drivers/i2c/Makefile:ccflags-$(CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_CORE) := -DDEBUG drivers/i2c/algos/Makefile:ccflags-$(CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_ALGO) := -DDEBUG drivers/i2c/busses/Makefile:ccflags-$(CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_BUS) := -DDEBUG drivers/i2c/muxes/Makefile:ccflags-$(CONFIG_I2C_DEBUG_BUS) := -DDEBUG But some have subdirectories that look like they probably should be included by using subdir-ccflags, e.g., drivers/base/Makefile:ccflags-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_DRIVER) := -DDEBUG drivers/base/power/Makefile:ccflags-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_DRIVER) := -DDEBUG # drivers/base/{firmware_loader,regmap,test}/ not included drivers/hwmon/Makefile:ccflags-$(CONFIG_HWMON_DEBUG_CHIP) := -DDEBUG # drivers/hwmon/{occ,pmbus}/ not included drivers/pps/Makefile:ccflags-$(CONFIG_PPS_DEBUG) := -DDEBUG drivers/pps/clients/Makefile:ccflags-$(CONFIG_PPS_DEBUG) := -DDEBUG # drivers/pps/generators/ not included There are many more places that add -DDEBUG to ccflags-y that *don't* have subdirectories. I wonder the default should be that we use subdir-ccflags all the time, and use ccflags only when we actually want different CONFIG_*_DEBUG options for subdirectories. > Signed-off-by: Junhao He <hejunhao2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/pci/Makefile | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/pci/Makefile b/drivers/pci/Makefile > index 11cc794..d62c4ac 100644 > --- a/drivers/pci/Makefile > +++ b/drivers/pci/Makefile > @@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_PCI_ENDPOINT) += endpoint/ > obj-y += controller/ > obj-y += switch/ > > -ccflags-$(CONFIG_PCI_DEBUG) := -DDEBUG > +subdir-ccflags-$(CONFIG_PCI_DEBUG) := -DDEBUG > -- > 2.8.1 >