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SubjectRe: [PATCH] samples: build fix
* Sam Ravnborg (sam@ravnborg.org) wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 08:27:52AM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > * Roland McGrath (roland@redhat.com) wrote:
> > >
> > > The samples/ subdirectory contains only modules.
> > > But the only make run done there is in commands for vmlinux.
> > > I can't see why this was ever done in this nonstandard fashion.
> > > As things stand, the modules don't get built by 'make modules'.
> > >
> > > I didn't make the addition of the directory use core-$(CONFIG_SAMPLES)
> > > because there is no other conditional like that in the top-level Makefile
> > > and samples/Makefile already uses obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLES) as if it expects
> > > always to be included.
> > >
> >
> > Sam, is this ok with the samples intent ? I think as long as we do not
> > include them with the kernel image and have a "make samples" to build
> > them, it's ok. Having them built upon make modules seems like a good
> > idea to me.
>
> The samples code are supposed to be what the name says 'samples'.
> This is not code that are supposed to be part of the built-in kernel.
> This is not modules that are supposed to be installes when
> installing modules.
>
> Adding it to core-y as Roland does in the patch below is plain
> wrong as it enabled both points above.
> The fact that the present code in samples/ does not do this is
> in this respect irellevant.
>
> Do we have problems when to build the sampls - then lets
> address this issue but not by trying to upgrade the samples
> to first class citizen in the kernel - they are not that
> and should not be handled like that.
>

Then is there some other way to have the samples built upon "make
modules" that would not install them with other modules ?

Mathieu

> Sam

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Mathieu Desnoyers
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