Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031233AbXECM4f (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 08:56:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031236AbXECM4e (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 08:56:34 -0400 Received: from mailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.26]:35909 "EHLO mailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031233AbXECM4c (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 08:56:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 14:54:56 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab cc: Trent Piepho , v4l-dvb maintainer list , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH 35/36] Use menuconfig objects II - DVB In-Reply-To: <1178195820.12651.28.camel@localhost> Message-ID: References: <1178129426.29579.17.camel@localhost> <1178195820.12651.28.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1189 Lines: 34 On May 3 2007 09:37, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >Trent is mentioning an out-of-tree building system to allow easier >testing of V4L/DVB patches by end users and developers and during driver >development time. The building system allows faster >compilation/linkedition during driver development, by allowing you to >use: > make menuconfig/qconfig/xconfig > >inside the tree, unselecting the drivers that you're not working. Is that all? Because you can do make drivers/media/video/ today and it will only build that directory (or even drivers/media/video/foo.o) to only do that one. >The point rised by Trent is that, currently, this is not prepared to >handle the "menuconfig" and "if/endif" tags. > >However, the v4l-dvb building system shouldn't stop improvements at the >kernel building system. So, if there are any limits there, the proper >solution is to fix the issues, instead of avoiding patches that could >break it. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/