Re: [PATCH 04/10] lib/fonts: Clean up Makefile
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2026-04-01 07:49:06
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Hi Thomas, On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 at 14:05, Thomas Zimmermann [off-list ref] wrote:
Simplify the Makefile. Drop font-obj-y and sort the fonts by dictionary order. Done in preparation for supporting optional font rotation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 3f90ea78f5fe9495
("lib/fonts: Clean up Makefile") in fbdev/for-next.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- a/lib/fonts/Makefile +++ b/lib/fonts/Makefile@@ -1,23 +1,22 @@ # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 # Font handling -font-objs := fonts.o +font-y := fonts.o -font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16) += font_sun8x16.o -font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22) += font_sun12x22.o -font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_8x8) += font_8x8.o -font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_8x16) += font_8x16.o -font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_6x11) += font_6x11.o -font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_7x14) += font_7x14.o -font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_10x18) += font_10x18.o -font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_PEARL_8x8) += font_pearl_8x8.o -font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_ACORN_8x8) += font_acorn_8x8.o -font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_MINI_4x6) += font_mini_4x6.o -font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_6x10) += font_6x10.o -font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_TER10x18) += font_ter10x18.o -font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_TER16x32) += font_ter16x32.o -font-objs-$(CONFIG_FONT_6x8) += font_6x8.o +# Built-in fonts +font-$(CONFIG_FONT_10x18) += font_10x18.o +font-$(CONFIG_FONT_6x10) += font_6x10.o +font-$(CONFIG_FONT_6x11) += font_6x11.o +font-$(CONFIG_FONT_6x8) += font_6x8.o +font-$(CONFIG_FONT_7x14) += font_7x14.o +font-$(CONFIG_FONT_8x16) += font_8x16.o +font-$(CONFIG_FONT_8x8) += font_8x8.o
Please sort the anonymous entries by increasing font size.
+font-$(CONFIG_FONT_ACORN_8x8) += font_acorn_8x8.o +font-$(CONFIG_FONT_MINI_4x6) += font_mini_4x6.o +font-$(CONFIG_FONT_PEARL_8x8) += font_pearl_8x8.o +font-$(CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22) += font_sun12x22.o +font-$(CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16) += font_sun8x16.o +font-$(CONFIG_FONT_TER10x18) += font_ter10x18.o +font-$(CONFIG_FONT_TER16x32) += font_ter16x32.o -font-objs += $(font-objs-y) - -obj-$(CONFIG_FONT_SUPPORT) += font.o +obj-$(CONFIG_FONT_SUPPORT) += font.o
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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