linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Introduce IS_ENABLED(), IS_BUILTIN() and IS

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Message-ID: <4E38510B.6090001@suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:33:31 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, rdunlap@...otime.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, plagnioj@...osoft.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Introduce IS_ENABLED(), IS_BUILTIN() and	IS_MODULE()

Dne 2.8.2011 21:26, Sam Ravnborg napsal(a):
>>>
>>> If we do it like this then how about adding this to autoconf.h and avoid the extra file,
>>> and the extra flag to gcc?
>>>
>> That would be intrusive for non-Linux users of kconfig. You would have
>> to hardcode a <linux/kconfig.h> in autoconf.h, which mean other
>> project would have to either mirror the Linux include tree structure,
>> or modify kconfig for the desired include path, if the feature is
>> desired at all. As I see it, Linux, through Kbuild, is a user of
>> kconfig.
> The idea was to entirely skip kconfig.h - and include the code in
> autoconf.h verbatim - so no extra file.

We could do that. I went for the extra file because it was easier to
edit a .h file than to edit a .c file that generates a .h file :).

Michal
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