Re: [PATCH 2.6.22] Adding drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c to the Makefile

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Tue Aug 07 2007 - 00:12:37 EST


On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 08:01:56PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:27:01PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:25:20PM +0200, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> > > This patch adds the new iowarrior module to the Makefile in drivers/usb.
> > > Currently the module isn't build unless another driver from usb/misc is
> > > selected.
> >
> > Can we please just always vist misc like this:
> > obj-y := misc/
> >
> > Then we do not need to repeat this stuff in both
> > drivers/usb/Makefile and drivers/usb/misc/Makefile
>
> For some reason, we didn't do that because people were upset at us going
> into these directories when they didn't have any usb misc devices
> selected? Or something like that, I really can't remember anymore.
>
> But if you think it would be best to do that, I'd be glad to make the
> change.
Please do - we have too much duplication between the two files now.

Sam
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