On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 07:08:17PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote:
> From: Junhao He <hejunh...@hisilicon.com>
> 
> We use ccflags-$(CONFIG_HWMON_DEBUG_CHIP) for the debug
> message in drivers/hwmon, but the DEBUG flag will not pass to
> the subdirectory.
> 
> Considering CONFIG_HWMON_DEBUG_CHIP intends to have DEBUG
> recursively in driver/hwmon. It will be clearer
> to use subdir-ccflags-* instead of ccflags-* to inherit
> the debug settings from Kconfig when traversing subdirectories,
> and it will avoid omittance of DEBUG define when debug messages
> added in the subdirectories.
> 

The above paragraph doesn't add clarity and may as well be dropped.
On the other side, the commit message still doesn't mention that
pr_debug depends on DEBUG, which I am sure many people don't know
or remember. This is the prime reason why this patch is acceptable,
so it most definitely needs to be mentioned here.

Guenter

> Suggested-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelg...@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Junhao He <hejunh...@hisilicon.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyic...@hisilicon.com>
> ---
>  drivers/hwmon/Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/Makefile b/drivers/hwmon/Makefile
> index 09a86c5..1c0c089 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/Makefile
> @@ -201,5 +201,5 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SENSORS_XGENE)       += xgene-hwmon.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_SENSORS_OCC)    += occ/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_PMBUS)          += pmbus/
>  
> -ccflags-$(CONFIG_HWMON_DEBUG_CHIP) := -DDEBUG
> +subdir-ccflags-$(CONFIG_HWMON_DEBUG_CHIP) := -DDEBUG
>  
> -- 
> 2.8.1
> 
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