Re: Module compilation

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:36:00AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote>
> > ...but it's not CFLAGS that needs to be modified, it's
> > a named variable that doesn't exist yet, perhaps "USERDEF",
> > or "DEFINES".
>
> Reading the above I cannot what amkes you say that EXTRA_CFLAGS
> or CFLAGS_module.o cannot be used?
> Is it the name you do not like or is it some fnctionality
> you are missing?

The name is wrong! There are zillions of ways to obtain the
functionality. Currently we need to piggy-back definitions
onto compiler flags.

Compiler flags are things like "-Wall" and "-O2", that tell
the compiler what to do. We need a name to use for definitions,
"-Dxxx", that #define constants (dynamically at compile-time)
in the code. Right now, -DMODULE and -D__KERNEL__ are piggybacked
onto CFLAGS. There really should be a variable called something
else like DEFINES and it should be exported.

> > I see that the normal "defines" is a constant
> > called "CHECKFLAGS", so this isn't appropriate for user
> > modification.
> CHECKFLAGS is only used when you use "make C=1" - to pass options
> to sparse.
>
> 	Sam

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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