tools: Define a Makefile function to do subdir processing

Define a Makefile function that can be called with $(call ...) to wrap
the subdir make invocations in tools/Makefile.

This will allow us in the next patch to insert bits in there to honour
O= flags when called from the top-level Makefile.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378.1352379110@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include
index 96ce80a3743b..4a9e3176f743 100644
--- a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include
+++ b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ else
 NO_SUBDIR = :
 endif
 
+#
+# Define a callable command for descending to a new directory
+#
+# Call by doing: $(call descend,directory[,target])
+#
+descend = \
+        $(QUIET_SUBDIR0)$(1) $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) $(2)
+
 QUIET_SUBDIR0  = +$(MAKE) -C # space to separate -C and subdir
 QUIET_SUBDIR1  =