> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 02:34 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 22:57 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 21:57 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 15:28 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>>>> Sorry I am not ignoring you, I was taking a closer look at your patch.
>>>>> What regression testing would actually be done?
>>>> The Makefile and Kconfig needs more work. I applied your patch and none
>>>> of the Intel Wired drivers build.
>>> Care to describe the Makefile/Kconfig issues you have seen?
>>> I built it allyesconfig, defconfig, allmodconfig and allnoconfig.
>> Yeah, I found all of those built without errors, but if you build the
>> Intel Wired LAN drivers as modules, you will not find the *.ko files
>> after the build. The Kconfig files look fine, the problem was with the
>> Makefiles. Instead of creating a drivers/net/intel_wired_lan/Makefile,
>> I simply changed the path in drivers/net/Makefile to the updated path
>> and that resolved the issue.
>
> (adding a few cc's and a link for history)
>
>
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/10/207
>
> That's the way I had done it originally as well, but I found
> you couldn't build the directory with:
>
> make drivers/net/intel_wired_lan/
>
> so I created a Makefile in the new directory below with
> the elements necessary.
>
> Perhaps there's some missing functionality in the build system
> when the Kconfig file resides in a higher directory and the
> directory being built doesn't have a Kconfig file?
