On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:16:35PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On S?nndag 30 Januar 2005 18:37, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > So you expect kerntypes-y := file.o > > > to be present in one or a few places outside arch/ > > > And then in one or a few files within arch/ the arch > > > specific types are brought in with kerntypes-y := archfile.o > > > > > > And kbuild shall link the resuting files to a single kerntypes.o file > > > to be located in the root of the kernel output dir. > > > > Currenly it's called Kerntypes, which would make sense to be kept, but > > else yes. > > How about simply linking the kerntypes files into vmlinux? AFAIK, lcrash > is able to use vmlinux with stabs information instead of a separate > kerntypes file. Supporting this could be as simple as putting > > obj-y += $(kerntypes-y) > $(kerntypes-y): CFLAGS += $(KERNTYPES_FLAGS) > > into scripts/Makefile.build, although I haven't tried that.
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