On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:46:00 +0000, Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:06:21PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: >> >> I have this in my .config file for 2.6.13-rc3: >> >> >> # >> # Multimedia devices >> # >> # CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set >> >> # >> # Digital Video Broadcasting Devices >> # >> # CONFIG_DVB is not set >> >> >> And yet these completely empty files are being built: >> >> ... >kbuild is told to visit these directories - and then it build an empty >.o file to make linking step possible. >The only solution is to tell kbuild not to visit these directories >unless they are in real use. >Following untested patch should do the trick. But the media people must >check if before being applied since I have only taken a brief look at >the Kconfig and Makefile files. > > Sam > >diff --git a/drivers/media/Makefile b/drivers/media/Makefile >--- a/drivers/media/Makefile >+++ b/drivers/media/Makefile >@@ -2,4 +2,7 @@ > # Makefile for the kernel multimedia device drivers. > # > >-obj-y := video/ radio/ dvb/ common/ >+obj-y := common/ >+obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV) := video/ >+obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV) := radio/ >+obj-$(CONFIG_DVB) := dvb/
That should be +=, not := +obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV) += video/ +obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV) += radio/ +obj-$(CONFIG_DVB) += dvb/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
