From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753367AbZAFGHw (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 01:07:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751205AbZAFGHl (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 01:07:41 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43194 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751167AbZAFGHk (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 01:07:40 -0500 Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:07:42 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20090105.220742.176919041.davem@davemloft.net> To: sam@ravnborg.org Cc: jaswinderlinux@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org Subject: Re: [GIT]: Networking From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20090106055144.GA11695@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20090105.204934.65827705.davem@davemloft.net> <3f9a31f40901052114t68cac881md439bf24b602f269@mail.gmail.com> <20090106055144.GA11695@uranus.ravnborg.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Sam Ravnborg Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 06:51:44 +0100 > We should avoid a central file and push this information > out to the Kconfig files that are at the driver site. > > Then we can postprocess autoconf.h to get the filenames etc. I'll take this opportunity to once again promote my idea wherein build information (and perhaps other bits like firmware info) for a driver is encoded into the source of the driver itself, and the build system just extracts that stuff into Makefiles and whatnot at build time. :-) Couldn't resist.