Re: [tree] ftrace, v16

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jun 12 2008 - 05:18:43 EST



* Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Ingo
>
> > kbuild: create new CFLAGS_REMOVE_(basename).o option
>
> But no changes to Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
>
> Documentation must be included for new kbuild features.
>
>
> > +ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
> > +CFLAGS_REMOVE_ftrace.o = -pg
> > +endif
>
> I can see where this comes from as we have:
>
> CFLAGS_ftrace.o := -foobar
>
> But in all cases below I see the pattern:
>
> ifdef CONFIG_FOO_BAR
> CFLAGS_REMOVE_foobar.o = -pg
> endif
>
> And it would be nice to get this on one line instead.
> And use a syntax we can somehow remember.
>
> Today we have:
> ccflags-y := -foobar
>
> to add options valid for the whole file.
> So we should then add:
> - possibility to remove an option valid for the whole file
> - add/remove an option for a single file
>
> The suggested syntax:
> ccflags-remove-y := -foobar
> ccflags-<file.o>-y := -foobar
> ccflags-remove-<file.o>-y := -foobar
>
> So in the case above for ftrace we would use:
>
> ccflags-remove-ftrace.o-$(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) := -pg
>
> Comments?

sounds like a good cleanup to me. Would you be interested in sending
patches for this?

Ingo
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