kbuild: asm-generic support
authorSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:29:49 +0000 (22:29 +0200)
committerMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:01:41 +0000 (18:01 +0200)
commitd8ecc5cd8e227bc318513b5306ae88a474b8886d
treef05fe662c000b8219923b8c464c9c186b599190e
parent28bc20dccadc610c56e27255aeef2938141a0cd3
kbuild: asm-generic support

There is an increasing amount of header files
shared between individual architectures in asm-generic.
To avoid a lot of dummy wrapper files that just
include the corresponding file in asm-generic provide
some basic support in kbuild for this.

With the following patch an architecture can maintain
a list of files in the file arch/$(ARCH)/include/asm/Kbuild

To use a generic file just add:

        generic-y += <name-of-header-file.h>

For each file listed kbuild will generate the necessary
wrapper in arch/$(ARCH)/include/generated/asm.

When installing userspace headers a wrapper is likewise created.

The original inspiration for this came from the unicore32
patchset - although a different method is used.

The patch includes several improvements from Arnd Bergmann.
Michael Marek contributed Makefile.asm-generic.

Remis Baima did an intial implementation along to achive
the same - see https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/13352/

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Guan Xuetao <guanxuetao@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Tested-by: Guan Xuetao <guanxuetao@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Remis Lima Baima <remis.developer@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
.gitignore
Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
Makefile
scripts/Makefile.asm-generic [new file with mode: 0644]
scripts/Makefile.headersinst