Re: kernel 2.6.5 sound arch dependency problem

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Mon Apr 12 2004 - 01:24:48 EST


On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 09:06:31AM +1000, Jon Tidswell wrote:
>
> kernel 2.6.5
>
> Unlike the arch/* directory the makefile for the sound subsystem is not
> robust about missing architecture subdirectories.
>
> delete arch/{arm,sparc,...} and make mrproper succeeds
This is expected.

>
> delete sound/{arm,sparc,...} and make mrproper fails
This is expected.

The logic used to select different architectures are different for
the two places, and there is no way to tell kbuild to traverse only
a limited subset of directories in sound/.
So what you ask for is not possible (with todays kbuild).

Sam
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