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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Kok,
	Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, roel <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Subject: Re: [OT] kbuild syntax extension for ccflags and asflags (was: [PATCH 1/3] CodingStyle updates)
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:24:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070929202444.GA20884@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709292221.27534.ioe-lkml@rameria.de>

> > Lately I have considered extending the kbuild syntax a bit.
> > 
> > Introducing
> > ccflags-y
> > asflags-y
> > 
> > [with same functionality as the EXTRA_CFLAGS, EXTRA_AFLAGS]
> > would allow us to do:
> > 
> > ccflags-$(CONFIG_WHATEVER_DEBUG) := -DDEBUG
> 
> Please do!
> 
> That is very useful for testing and developing new modules.
> I learnt a lot from you in this regard and used that kind
> of syntax to the extreme in some other non-kernel project
> of mine. There it included also ccflags, asflags and so on.
> 
> I further split that into -debug-y and -optimize-y flags,
> but that was just for my own convenience.

Thanks for feedback Ingo.
I just started a new thread were I outlined the ideas I have
for further extending (some may say uglifying) the kbuild syntax.
I will see the outcome of this thread before implmenting something.

PS. The implementation part is obviously trivial, the
hard part is the documentation :-)

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-29 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-28 21:31 [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates Erez Zadok
2007-09-28 21:32 ` [PATCH 1/3] CodingStyle updates Erez Zadok
2007-09-28 21:46   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-29 14:43   ` Shawn Bohrer
2007-09-29 15:59   ` Scott Preece
2007-09-29 18:01   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-29 18:29     ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-29 20:21       ` [OT] kbuild syntax extension for ccflags and asflags (was: [PATCH 1/3] CodingStyle updates) Ingo Oeser
2007-09-29 20:24         ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2007-09-28 21:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] Update usage string for checkpatch.pl Erez Zadok
2007-09-28 21:32 ` [PATCH 3/3] New script to check coding-style compliance on multiple regular files Erez Zadok
2007-09-29 10:10   ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-29 18:18 ` [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates Linus Torvalds
2007-09-29 19:56   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-29 20:14     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-30  2:06     ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-30  3:28       ` Erez Zadok
2007-09-29 21:56   ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-30  0:23   ` Erez Zadok
2007-09-30  0:49     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-30  4:01       ` Erez Zadok
2007-09-30 17:40         ` Mark Lord
2007-09-30 17:59           ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-30  2:24   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-09-30  3:00     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-30  3:29       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-09-30  3:35         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-30 17:57         ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-30  3:27     ` Al Viro
2007-09-30  3:39       ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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