Re: inter-module-* removal.. small next step

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Mon Jan 31 2005 - 09:02:54 EST


On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:56:32PM +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Mon, 31 January 2005 09:24:29 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 00:41 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 18:00 +0000, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > >
> > > > intermodule is deprecated for quite some time now, and MTD is the sole last
> > > > user in the tree. To shrink the kernel for the people who don't use MTD, and
> > > > to prevent accidental return of more users of this, make the compiling of
> > > > this function conditional on MTD.
> > >
> > > Please get the dependencies right -- it's not core MTD code, but the NOR
> > > chip drivers and the old DiskOnChip drivers which use this.
> >
> > that's just a slightly more finegrained thing, not sure if it's worth
> > going that deep, esp since it become 2 deps not one, making a bigger
> > mess than needed.
>
> How about this one? It's actually less messy inside kernel/Makefile.
>
> Completely untested, though.

Your patch doesn't add a Kconfig entry for INTER_MODULE_CRAP.

> Jörn
>...

cu
Adrian

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