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Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 14:54:56 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de> To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org> cc: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@...akeasy.org>, v4l-dvb maintainer list <v4l-dvb-maintainer@...uxtv.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH 35/36] Use menuconfig objects II - DVB On May 3 2007 09:37, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >Trent is mentioning an out-of-tree building system to allow easier >testing of V4L/DVB patches by end users and developers and during driver >development time. The building system allows faster >compilation/linkedition during driver development, by allowing you to >use: > make menuconfig/qconfig/xconfig > >inside the tree, unselecting the drivers that you're not working. Is that all? Because you can do make drivers/media/video/ today and it will only build that directory (or even drivers/media/video/foo.o) to only do that one. >The point rised by Trent is that, currently, this is not prepared to >handle the "menuconfig" and "if/endif" tags. > >However, the v4l-dvb building system shouldn't stop improvements at the >kernel building system. So, if there are any limits there, the proper >solution is to fix the issues, instead of avoiding patches that could >break it. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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