Re: [PATCH 04/10] lib/fonts: Clean up Makefile

From: Thomas Zimmermann

Date: Wed Apr 01 2026 - 04:12:48 EST


Hi

Am 01.04.26 um 09:48 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
Hi Thomas,

On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 at 14:05, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Simplify the Makefile. Drop font-obj-y and sort the fonts by dictionary
order. Done in preparation for supporting optional font rotation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 3f90ea78f5fe9495
("lib/fonts: Clean up Makefile") in fbdev/for-next.

--- a/lib/fonts/Makefile
+++ b/lib/fonts/Makefile
@@ -1,23 +1,22 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
# Font handling

-font-objs := fonts.o
+font-y := fonts.o

-font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16) += font_sun8x16.o
-font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22) += font_sun12x22.o
-font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_8x8) += font_8x8.o
-font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_8x16) += font_8x16.o
-font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_6x11) += font_6x11.o
-font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_7x14) += font_7x14.o
-font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_10x18) += font_10x18.o
-font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_PEARL_8x8) += font_pearl_8x8.o
-font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_ACORN_8x8) += font_acorn_8x8.o
-font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_MINI_4x6) += font_mini_4x6.o
-font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_6x10) += font_6x10.o
-font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_TER10x18) += font_ter10x18.o
-font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_TER16x32) += font_ter16x32.o
-font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_6x8) += font_6x8.o
+# Built-in fonts
+font-$(CONFIG_FONT_10x18) += font_10x18.o
+font-$(CONFIG_FONT_6x10) += font_6x10.o
+font-$(CONFIG_FONT_6x11) += font_6x11.o
+font-$(CONFIG_FONT_6x8) += font_6x8.o
+font-$(CONFIG_FONT_7x14) += font_7x14.o
+font-$(CONFIG_FONT_8x16) += font_8x16.o
+font-$(CONFIG_FONT_8x8) += font_8x8.o
Please sort the anonymous entries by increasing font size.

Makes sense. I'll also leave a comment on the sorting order.

Best regards
Thomas


+font-$(CONFIG_FONT_ACORN_8x8) += font_acorn_8x8.o
+font-$(CONFIG_FONT_MINI_4x6) += font_mini_4x6.o
+font-$(CONFIG_FONT_PEARL_8x8) += font_pearl_8x8.o
+font-$(CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22) += font_sun12x22.o
+font-$(CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16) += font_sun8x16.o
+font-$(CONFIG_FONT_TER10x18) += font_ter10x18.o
+font-$(CONFIG_FONT_TER16x32) += font_ter16x32.o

-font-objs += $(font-objs-y)
-
-obj-$(CONFIG_FONT_SUPPORT) += font.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_FONT_SUPPORT) += font.o
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert


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