From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: add arch/riscv/Kbuild
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 23:31:18 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK7LNASMx7XBDUALd+UOj1jw=0kU-XoJBExCpSvKyQwV37mz7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190902074256.GA754@infradead.org>
On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 4:42 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 10:04:53PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > Kbuild support two file names, "Makefile" and "Kbuild"
> > for describing obj-y, obj-m, etc.
>
> <snipping the basic explanation, which is documented pretty well,
> I I think I full understand>
>
> > Similarly, arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile is very special
> > in that it is included from the top-level Makefile,
> > and specify arch-specific compiler flags etc.
> >
> > We can use arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kbuild
> > to specify obj-y, obj-m.
> > The top-level Makefile does not need to know
> > the directory structure under arch/$(SRCARCH)/.
> >
> > This is logical separation.
>
> But only if we document this specific split and eventually stop allowing
> to build objects from arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile.
I like this idea, but it would change the link order (i.e. probe order)
For example, I want move all drivers-y in arch/x86/Makefile
to arch/x86/Kbuild.
I do not know how much we care about the probe order.
> And in my perfect world
> we'd eventually phase out the magic arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile entireŀy.
> In addition to the normal Kbuild file we'd then have say (names entirely
> made up and probably not the best idea)
>
> arch/$(SRCARCH)/flags.mk to set the various compiler flags and co
> arch/$(SRCARCH)/targets.mk for extra arch-specific targets
I am not sure whether this split is a good idea.
What is the problem with having the single arch-Makefile?
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-03 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-21 9:26 [PATCH] riscv: add arch/riscv/Kbuild Masahiro Yamada
2019-08-26 11:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-27 5:14 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-08-30 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-31 13:04 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-09-02 7:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-03 14:31 ` Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2019-08-31 0:51 ` Paul Walmsley
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