Re: [PATCH] fix dependency generation

[Jeff Dike]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:43:17PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >But that will break UM - no??
> >See following note from fixdep:
> > * Note 2: if somebody writes HELLO_CONFIG_BOOM in a file, it will depend onto
> > * CONFIG_BOOM. This could seem a bug (not too hard to fix), but please do not
> > * fix it! Some UserModeLinux files (look at arch/um/) call CONFIG_BOOM as
> > * UML_CONFIG_BOOM, to avoid conflicts with /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h,
> > * through arch/um/include/uml-config.h; this fixdep "bug" makes sure that
> > * those files will have correct dependencies.
> 
> Hmm, didn't see this note. Then this might warrant special casing UML, but
> penalizing all code due to this seems at least odd to me.

If I understand this, I would think that special-casing UML_CONFIG_*
instead of *_CONFIG_* would be the way to go.

				Jeff

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