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

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Date:	Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:53:53 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	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]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:34:40 +0000 David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> 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?

Doesn't worry me, but I'd suggest that such annotation be added to all such
files in a single separate patch.

otoh it'd be pretty dumb of emacs if there wasn't some way of telling it
the type of a file external from that file itself.

> > 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?

I forget which Kbuild file that was.  But with the above change, both
include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm and include/linux/Kbuild are using
unifdef-y.

> Anyway, it sounds reasonable.
> 
> David
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