Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:24:44 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [OT] kbuild syntax extension for ccflags and asflags (was: [PATCH 1/3] CodingStyle updates) |
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> > 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 :-)
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