Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:10:45 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: petkovbb@gmail.com
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] docsrc: build Documentation/ sources
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:27:32 +0200 Borislav Petkov wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:05:15PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> > 
> > Currently source files in the Documentation/ sub-dir can easily bit-rot
> > since they are not generally buildable, either because they are hidden
> > in text files or because there are no Makefile rules for them.
> > This needs to be fixed so that the source files remain usable and good
> > examples of code instead of bad examples.
> > 
> > Add the ability to build source files that are in the Documentation/ dir.
> > Add to Kconfig as "BUILD_DOCSRC" config symbol.
> > 
> > Use "CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=1 make ..." to build objects from the
> > Documentation/ sources.  Or enable BUILD_DOCSRC in the *config system.
> 
> How about simply adding another makefile target instead? This is more
> intuitive, imho, and complies with the Kbuild conventions so far.
> Something like:
> 
> make docsrc
> 
> similar to 'make help' or 'make pdfdocs' etc.

Hi Boris,

I happen to have a previous version of the patch that does that, so yes, I can
post that if that's the preferred solution.  I'll wait for other comments before
reposting.

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~Randy
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