Re: Patch to allow creation of headers from custom kernel source

["Andy Gibbs" <andyg1001 at hotmail dot co dot uk>]

Hi,

Thomas Taranowski wrote:
> I like this feature.  Let me know if you need help testing it, as I am
> working on a similar workflow.

Yes, I also will be willing to do lots of testing!


> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Yann E. MORIN
> <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> wrote:
> > Andy, All,
> >
> > On Thursday 10 June 2010 15:33:26 Andy Gibbs wrote:
> > > Following on from my previous question, I have hacked (rather badly,
> > > probably) an extra option into crosstool-ng to allow the use of a
> > > custom Linux archive file which contains the whole source rather
> > > than just the headers. The extra setting allows the user to set
> > > whether the archive *is* the whole source or not, and then the
> > > build scripts will then create the headers from this as appropriate.
> > >
> > > I've attached the patch file in case this is of interest. Hopefully
> > > it is fairly easy to follow (I've mainly just copied bits from
> > > elsewhere). I'm afraid its probably not the best quality however,
> > > since I'm not so sure about how the menuconfig system works. I've
> > > tested it here, and it works fine for me.
> >
> > Bad code duplication, bad! ;-)
> >
> > Seriously, I'm really uncomfortable with that code duplication. I
> > think there is a nice way to handle that with the existing code and
> > a few more tests... I'll poke at that later tonight...

Thanks.  I did admit it wasn't good ;o)


> > > The same source archive can now be used both for crosstool
> > > *and* buildroot, which was my aim.
> >
> > Hoho! I see what you wanted that for, now.

That's right!... (fairly caught!)

Thanks again
Andy


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