Re: [kbuild-devel] sorting out the kerntypes mess

2005-01-30 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Christoph The various dumping projects like lkcd and the s390 VM dump require debug information for the kernel, and they're using a mechanism that compiles a small file containing nothing but includes for interesting types into a Kerntypes file for the debugger. Unfortunately the

[kbuild-devel] Re: [PATCH] make 'make help' show all *config targets and update descriptions slightly.

2005-01-30 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:05:48PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: make help doesn't show make randconfig nor make config as options and the description of oldconfig could be better (IMHO). Patch below adds the missing targets to the help and updates the description of oldconfig. Applied - the

Re: [kbuild-devel] sorting out the kerntypes mess

2005-01-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 06:34:48PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: First trying to understand exactly what you want. 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