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Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 0/7] record and rework component dependencies
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> From: Bruce Richardson [mailto:bruce.richardson@intel.com]
> Sent: Friday, 2 August 2024 14.44
>=20
> As part of the meson build, we can record the dependencies for each
> component as we process it, logging them to a file. This file can be
> used as input to a number of other scripts and tools, for example, to
> graph the dependencies, or to allow higher-level build-config tools to
> automatically enable component requirements, etc.
>=20
> The first patch of this set generates the basic dependency tree. The
> second patch does some processing of that dependency tree to identify
> cases where dependencies are being unnecessarily specified. Reducing
> these makes it easier to have readable dependency graphs in future,
> without affecting the build.
>=20
> The following 4 patches are based on the output of the second patch, =
and
> greatly cut down the number of direct dependency links between
> components. Even with the cut-down dependencies, the full dependency
> graph is nigh-unreadable, so the final patch adds a new script to
> generate dependency tree subgraphs, creating dot files for e.g. the
> dependencies of a particular component, or a component class such as
> mempool drivers.

Thank you for the work on this, Bruce.

For the series,
Acked-by: Morten Br=F8rup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>