Re: inter-module-* removal.. small next step

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk_at_stusta.de)
Date: 01/31/05

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To: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

    On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:56:32PM +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
    > On Mon, 31 January 2005 09:24:29 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
    > > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 00:41 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
    > > > On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 18:00 +0000, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
    > > > >
    > > > > intermodule is deprecated for quite some time now, and MTD is the sole last
    > > > > user in the tree. To shrink the kernel for the people who don't use MTD, and
    > > > > to prevent accidental return of more users of this, make the compiling of
    > > > > this function conditional on MTD.
    > > >
    > > > Please get the dependencies right -- it's not core MTD code, but the NOR
    > > > chip drivers and the old DiskOnChip drivers which use this.
    > >
    > > that's just a slightly more finegrained thing, not sure if it's worth
    > > going that deep, esp since it become 2 deps not one, making a bigger
    > > mess than needed.
    >
    > How about this one? It's actually less messy inside kernel/Makefile.
    >
    > Completely untested, though.

    Your patch doesn't add a Kconfig entry for INTER_MODULE_CRAP.

    > Jörn
    >...

    cu
    Adrian 

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