Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753568AbXJIEzO (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 00:55:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751126AbXJIEzA (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 00:55:00 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:53022 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750807AbXJIEy7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 00:54:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 21:53:16 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Oleg Verych , kbuild devel , LKML Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT] kbuild: save ARCH & CROSS_COMPILE Message-Id: <20071008215316.6e186b89.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20071009041743.GA21552@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20071008200255.GA16497@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20071008205048.GY22435@flower.upol.cz> <20071009041743.GA21552@uranus.ravnborg.org> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.6 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1512 Lines: 36 On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 06:17:43 +0200 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > What about, that this is the first ever prompt, that must be shown and > > written to the .config? > Two issues to fix before we can do this: > 1) chocie values cannot have more than one prompt > 2) We need to share much more Kconfig* between the individual architectures > First step is to let all arch's use drivers/Kconfig 2) isn't terribly difficult, just takes some time and willingness of $arch maintainers to some changes, but please explain a bit more why it is needed...? > Let's get the two items above solved then we can revisit adding arch selection > to kconfig (where it belongs in the end). > And neither require a rewrite of kconfig... > > > Also, i'd like to propose sequencing of config-enable-build-this-unit > > in config file(s), thus Makefile(s) (sometimes very small and stupid) > > will be not necessary. Additional link ordering can be supplied as > > meta-config information there. Shell scripting, very ugly in the view > > of make syntax, will be natural in config files. Extending build > > process to get hidden dependencies or right linking/other magic is > > part of particular configuration. Hm? > Discussed before but so far no patches has shown up. --- ~Randy - 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/