linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] Suppress A.OUT library support if !CONFIG_BINFMT

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Date:	Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:34:40 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-am33-list@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Suppress A.OUT library support if !CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT [try #5]

Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> > +# -*- makefile -*-
> 
> what's that?

Ah...  That tells emacs that it's a makefile.  In Kbuild.asm emacs thinks its
an Assembly file and not a makefile.  This causes it to attempt to do
automatic indentation on it.  Do you want me to drop these annotation
comments?

> Note that because of unexport-asm-pageh.patch I turned the above hunk into
> 
> ifeq ($(wildcard include/asm-$(SRCARCH)/a.out.h),include/asm-$(SRCARCH)/a.out.h)
> unifdef-y += a.out.h
> endif
> 
> which seems logical to me.  We'll see how it tests out.

Are you talking about in linux/Kbuild or in asm-generic/Kbuild.asm or both?

Anyway, it sounds reasonable.

David
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