[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 16 of 16] ipath - kbuild infrastructure

Sam Ravnborg sam at ravnborg.org
Thu Mar 30 19:53:47 PST 2006


On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 02:36:34PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Bryan> I did ask at one point whether the core driver should live
>     Bryan> in a directory in drivers/char/, since it's not really an
>     Bryan> IB driver at all, and just have the IB-specific stuff live
>     Bryan> in drivers/infiniband/hw/.
> 
> I guess we could do that (now or later).
> 
> For now how about something minimal like the change below?
> 
> Sam, does this seem OK to you?  (The situation is that the IPATH_CORE
> source physically sits in drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath, but it is
> possible to enable IPATH_CORE without enabling INFINIBAND.  So we need
> to tell the build system to descend into drivers/infiniband if
> IPATH_CORE is enabled, even if INFINIBAND isn't enabled)

Hi Roland.
This looks OK. Specifying the same subdirectory twice is no problem.

	Sam



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