netdev - Re: [PATCH 8/8] New driver "sfc" for Solarstorm SFC4000 controller (try #8)

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Message-ID: <20080324103438.GA24160@solarflare.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:34:40 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] New driver "sfc" for Solarstorm SFC4000 controller (try #8)

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > +++ b/drivers/net/sfc/Makefile
> > @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
> > +
> > +# Final objects
> > +sfc_o = sfc.o
> > +
> > +# Constituent objects
> > +sfc_elements_o :=
> > +sfc_elements_o += efx.o
> > +sfc_elements_o += falcon.o
> > +sfc_elements_o += tx.o
> > +sfc_elements_o += rx.o
> > +sfc_elements_o += falcon_xmac.o
> > +sfc_elements_o += i2c-direct.o
> > +sfc_elements_o += ethtool.o
> > +sfc_elements_o += xfp_phy.o
> > +sfc_elements_o += mdio_10g.o
> > +sfc_elements_o += tenxpress.o
> > +sfc_elements_o += boards.o
> > +sfc_elements_o += sfe4001.o
> > +
> > +obj-$(CONFIG_SFC) += $(sfc_o)
> > +
> > +sfc-objs = $(sfc_elements_o)
> 
> Very strange makefile.  This should be:
> 
> sfc-y			+= efx.o falcon.o tx.o rx.o falcon_xmac.o \					   i2c-direct.o ethtool.o xfp_phy.o mdio_10g.o \
> 			   tenxpress.o boards.o sfe4001.o
> 
> obj-$(CONFIG_SFC)	+= sfc.o

The Makefile and all the source files are derived from an internal
version, processed to remove code that's not suitable for upstream.
But they're not strictly tracking that version any more, so we could
just write it the simple way.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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