Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:38:32 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, greg@kroah.com,
       torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jeff@garzik.org, arjan@infradead.org,
       sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: distributed module configuration [Was: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))]
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:56:13AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 13. February 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> > config foo
> > 	tristate "do you want foo?"
> > 	depends on USB && BAR
> > 	module
> > 	  obj-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo.o
> > 	  foo-y := file1.o file2.o
> > 	help
> > 	  foo will allow you to explode your PC
> 
> I'm more thinking about something like this:
> 
> module foo [FOO]
> 	tristate "do you want foo?"
> 	depends on USB && BAR
> 	source file1.c
> 	source file2.c if BAZ
> 
> Avoiding direct Makefile fragments would give us far more flexibility in the 
> final Makefile output.

Much better and now I see it I recall you posted something
along these lines before.
Is this something that you plan to look into implementing?

I can do the kbuild bits but I need you to do the kconfig
stuff (which is by far the biggest effort too).

It would be much appreciated to get this.

	Sam
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