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

[Thomas Taranowski <tom at baringforge dot com>]

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

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...
>
>> 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.
>
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