Re: [KBUILD] Re: Adding vendor drivers...

2000-10-07 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Philipp Rumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > The idea isn't bad, but I'm not sure magic comments are really the > way to go. special macros should work just as well, shouldn't they ? To be defined where? Do we assume everyone will #include or something? Or #include ? It seems a little absurd, sinc

Re: Adding vendor drivers...

2000-10-07 Thread Philipp Rumpf
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:39:53PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Well, having .in and .mak files with single lines in them seems ugly > to me. What about make dep scanning for > > /* Makefile: obj-$(CONFIG_MY_DRIVER) += mydriver.o */ > /* Config.in: bool CONFIG_MY_DRIVER */ > > i

Re: [KBUILD] Re: Adding vendor drivers...

2000-10-07 Thread Jeff Garzik
Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > So, when a vendor has to add a new driver, especially with the new-style > > makefiles, you have a one-line patch to a makefile, a one-line patch to > > a Config.in, and a patch which adds the driver to the tree. > > > > It would make adding new drivers to vendo

RE: Adding vendor drivers...

2000-10-07 Thread Paul Fulghum
>Well, having .in and .mak files with single lines in them seems ugly >to me. What about make dep scanning for > >/* Makefile: obj-$(CONFIG_MY_DRIVER) += mydriver.o */ >/* Config.in: bool CONFIG_MY_DRIVER */ > >in .c files? >

Re: Adding vendor drivers...

2000-10-07 Thread Sven Koch
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Pavel Machek wrote: > Well, having .in and .mak files with single lines in them seems ugly > to me. What about make dep scanning for > > /* Makefile: obj-$(CONFIG_MY_DRIVER) += mydriver.o */ > /* Config.in: bool CONFIG_MY_DRIVER */ > > in .c files? Isn't "m

Re: Adding vendor drivers...

2000-10-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > So, when a vendor has to add a new driver, especially with the new-style > makefiles, you have a one-line patch to a makefile, a one-line patch to > a Config.in, and a patch which adds the driver to the tree. > > It would make adding new drivers to vendor kernel packages a whole lot > easi

Adding vendor drivers...

2000-10-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
So, when a vendor has to add a new driver, especially with the new-style makefiles, you have a one-line patch to a makefile, a one-line patch to a Config.in, and a patch which adds the driver to the tree. It would make adding new drivers to vendor kernel packages a whole lot easier and more modul

Re: [KBUILD] Adding vendor drivers...

2000-10-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 07:11:01 -0500 (CDT), > Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >So, when a vendor has to add a new driver, especially with the new-style > >makefiles, you have a one-line patch to a makefile, a one-line patch to > >a Config.in, and a p

Re: [KBUILD] Adding vendor drivers...

2000-10-03 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 07:11:01 -0500 (CDT), Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So, when a vendor has to add a new driver, especially with the new-style >makefiles, you have a one-line patch to a makefile, a one-line patch to >a Config.in, and a patch which adds the driver to the tree. Jeff, be