Re: kbuild: shorthand ym2y, ym2m etc

[Russell King]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:39:26PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:52:30PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 
> > obj-$(CONFIG_FB)$(CONFIG_PPC)		+= macmodes.o
> > 
> > would be a lot more obvious, but I'm not sure how to handle
> > it for the case where one of them evaluates to m
> 
> The real problem is when say CONFIG_FB are empty. Then kbuild will see:
> obj-$(CONFIG_PPC) which I doubt was what you wanted.
> 
> This can be fixed by changing Kconfig to evaluate all known symbols to
> either y,m,n - in contradiction to today where symbols that evaluate
> to n is left empty.

Isn't that rather hard to achieve, unless all Kconfig files (including
all architecture specific ones) are read?  Eg, CONFIG_PPC wouldn't
exist on ARM.

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Russell King
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