Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add CONFIG symbol as module attribute

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:00:20AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> > The other nice thing is that we could probably fold most of the
> > Makefiles into Kconfig using that methods as well, by listing the
> > objectes required for a module, e.g.
> > 
> > module NVME_TARGET
> > 	tristate "NVMe Target support"
> > 	depends on BLOCK
> > 	depends on CONFIGFS_FS
> > 	name nvmet
> > 	objects core.o configfs.o admin-cmd.o io-cmd.o fabrics-cmd.o
> > 	objects discovery.o
> > 
> 
> If this was going to be a thing, then you might also have
> 
> config NVME_TARGET_FOO
> 	bool "NVMe target supports FOO"
> 	module NVME_TARGET
> 	objects foo.o

You mean this instead of a Makefile:

foo-$(CONFIG_NVME_TARGET_FOO) += foo.o

?

> The "module" would be like a "depends on" plus giving the module for
> generating the Makefile, and now you can really remove most Makefile
> stuff... :)

  Luis