From: Keith Owens <kaos@melbourne.sgi.com>
To: LA Walsh <law@sgi.com>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Power usage Q and parallel make question (separate issues) 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 2001 00:13:17 -0800."
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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 19:24:32 +1100
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On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 00:13:17 -0800, 
LA Walsh <law@sgi.com> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote:
>> It works, until somebody does this
>> 
>>  make -j 4 modules modules_install
>---
>	But that doesn't work now.  

Agreed, but letting modules_install parallel run increases the risk of
somebody doing that.  Most users will think that they can combine two
parallel runs into a single command, but if they are forced to single
thread modules_install it reduces the risk of user error.

>	A bit of documentation at the beginning of the Makefile would do wonders
>for kernel-developer (not end user, please!) clarity.  I've oft'asked the question
>as to what really is supported.  I've tried things like make dep bzImage modules --
>I noticed it didn't work fairly quickly.  Same with modules/modules_install -- 
>people would probably figure that one out, but just a bit of documentation would
>help even that.  

The 2.5 kbuild system will be fully documented, all the way from
reasons for doing things down to how they are down.  Trust me on this!
I have had too many problems with undocumented changes in kbuild.

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