smart-config.txt
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- Smart CONFIG_* Dependencies
- 1 August 1999
- Michael Chastain <mec@shout.net>
- Werner Almesberger <almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch>
- Martin von Loewis <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Here is the problem:
- Suppose that drivers/net/foo.c has the following lines:
- #include <linux/config.h>
- ...
- #ifdef CONFIG_FOO_AUTOFROB
- /* Code for auto-frobbing */
- #else
- /* Manual frobbing only */
- #endif
- ...
- #ifdef CONFIG_FOO_MODEL_TWO
- /* Code for model two */
- #endif
- Now suppose the user (the person building kernels) reconfigures the
- kernel to change some unrelated setting. This will regenerate the
- file include/linux/autoconf.h, which will cause include/linux/config.h
- to be out of date, which will cause drivers/net/foo.c to be recompiled.
- Most kernel sources, perhaps 80% of them, have at least one CONFIG_*
- dependency somewhere. So changing _any_ CONFIG_* setting requires
- almost _all_ of the kernel to be recompiled.
- Here is the solution:
- We've made the dependency generator, mkdep.c, smarter. Instead of
- generating this dependency:
- drivers/net/foo.c: include/linux/config.h
- It now generates these dependencies:
- drivers/net/foo.c:
- include/config/foo/autofrob.h
- include/config/foo/model/two.h
- So drivers/net/foo.c depends only on the CONFIG_* lines that
- it actually uses.
- A new program, split-include.c, runs at the beginning of
- compilation (make bzImage or make zImage). split-include reads
- include/linux/autoconf.h and updates the include/config/ tree,
- writing one file per option. It updates only the files for options
- that have changed.
- mkdep.c no longer generates warning messages for missing or unneeded
- <linux/config.h> lines. The new top-level target 'make checkconfig'
- checks for these problems.
- Flag Dependencies
- Martin Von Loewis contributed another feature to this patch:
- 'flag dependencies'. The idea is that a .o file depends on
- the compilation flags used to build it. The file foo.o has
- its flags stored in .flags.foo.o.
- Suppose the user changes the foo driver from resident to modular.
- 'make' will notice that the current foo.o was not compiled with
- -DMODULE and will recompile foo.c.
- All .o files made from C source have flag dependencies. So do .o
- files made with ld, and .a files made with ar. However, .o files
- made from assembly source do not have flag dependencies (nobody
- needs this yet, but it would be good to fix).
- Per-source-file Flags
- Flag dependencies also work with per-source-file flags.
- You can specify compilation flags for individual source files
- like this:
- CFLAGS_foo.o = -DSPECIAL_FOO_DEFINE
- This helps clean up drivers/net/Makefile, drivers/scsi/Makefile,
- and several other Makefiles.
- Credit
- Werner Almesberger had the original idea and wrote the first
- version of this patch.
- Michael Chastain picked it up and continued development. He is
- now the principal author and maintainer. Please report any bugs
- to him.
- Martin von Loewis wrote flag dependencies, with some modifications
- by Michael Chastain.
- Thanks to all of the beta testers.