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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/16] kbuild: support 'userprogs' syntax
Hi Masahiro

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 04:39:13PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>
> Several Makefiles use 'hostprogs' for building the code for
> the host architecture is not appropriate.
>
> This is just because Kbuild does not provide the syntax to do it.
>
> This series introduce 'userprogs' syntax and use it from
> sample and bpf Makefiles.
>
> Sam worked on this in 2014.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/13/154

I wonder how you managed to dig that up, but thanks for the reference.

Back then we would fail buiulding without any libc - you have solved
this nicely in this patch-set.

>
> He used 'uapiprogs-y' but I just thought the meaning of
> "UAPI programs" is unclear.
>
> Naming is one the most difficult parts of this.
>
> I chose 'userprogs'.
> Anothor choice I had in my mind was 'targetprogs'.
>
> If you can test this series quickly by
> 'make allmodconfig samples/'
>
> When building objects for userspace, [U] is displayed.
>
> masahiro@oscar:~/workspace/linux$ make allmodconfig samples/
> [snip]
> AR samples/vfio-mdev/built-in.a
> CC [M] samples/vfio-mdev/mtty.o
...

>
>
> Masahiro Yamada (15):
> Documentation: kbuild: fix the section title format
> Revert "objtool: Skip samples subdirectory"
> kbuild: add infrastructure to build userspace programs
> net: bpfilter: use 'userprogs' syntax to build bpfilter_umh
> samples: seccomp: build sample programs for target architecture
> kbuild: doc: document the new syntax 'userprogs'
> samples: uhid: build sample program for target architecture
> samples: hidraw: build sample program for target architecture
> samples: connector: build sample program for target architecture
> samples: vfs: build sample programs for target architecture
> samples: pidfd: build sample program for target architecture
> samples: mei: build sample program for target architecture
> samples: auxdisplay: use 'userprogs' syntax
> samples: timers: use 'userprogs' syntax
> samples: watchdog: use 'userprogs' syntax
Nice work!
All patches are:
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

>
> Sam Ravnborg (1):
> samples: uhid: fix warnings in uhid-example
>
> Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst | 185 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
> Makefile | 11 +-
> net/bpfilter/Makefile | 11 +-
> samples/Kconfig | 26 +++-
> samples/Makefile | 5 +-
> samples/auxdisplay/Makefile | 11 +-
> samples/connector/Makefile | 12 +-
> samples/hidraw/Makefile | 9 +-
> samples/mei/Makefile | 9 +-
> samples/pidfd/Makefile | 8 +-
> samples/seccomp/Makefile | 42 +------
> samples/timers/Makefile | 17 +--
> samples/uhid/.gitignore | 2 +
> samples/uhid/Makefile | 9 +-
> samples/uhid/uhid-example.c | 4 +-
> samples/vfs/Makefile | 11 +-
> samples/watchdog/Makefile | 10 +-
> scripts/Makefile.build | 5 +
> scripts/Makefile.clean | 2 +-
> scripts/Makefile.userprogs | 44 +++++++
> 20 files changed, 258 insertions(+), 175 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 samples/uhid/.gitignore
> create mode 100644 scripts/Makefile.userprogs
>
> --
> 2.25.1

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