linux-kernel - Re: 2.6 Makefile replacement for VPATH

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Date:	Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:47:48 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Kyle Hubert <khubert@...y.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Igor Gorodetsky <igorodet@...y.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6 Makefile replacement for VPATH

> I refer to VPATH with regards to the situation where you can have
> multiple Makefiles target the same source file to build different
> objects. In particular, we are using the same source file recompiled
> with different options to be able to support different devices.

Several obvious solutions.

a) Let the same driver handle multiple devices - we do this in very often.

b) Keep all shared functionality in a dedicated lib* module, and
have thin wrappers for the actual drivers. See libata for example.

c) The ugly where you have a thin dedicated .C file for each driver
that includes the source they share.

> How do others handle this? Do they just move their driver outside of
> the kernel Makefiles so they can iterate through the two builds via
> traditional Make routines?
That will most likely not work.

	Sam
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