Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757085Ab3JIKrB (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Oct 2013 06:47:01 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f42.google.com ([209.85.220.42]:34292 "EHLO mail-pa0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756932Ab3JIKq7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Oct 2013 06:46:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <52552FBA.7040806@suse.cz> References: <20130711135445.GA21500@sepie.suse.cz> <20130712105721.GF8731@rric.localhost> <20130717160506.GI8731@rric.localhost> <20130717165743.GK8731@rric.localhost> <51E7B3D0.4060609@suse.cz> <20130930084945.GA1963@rric.localhost> <20130930163139.GA12450@free.fr> <52552FBA.7040806@suse.cz> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 12:46:59 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: DdvbmzMy6u28d8SK_HmuUstME-M Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm, kbuild: make "make install" not depend on vmlinux From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Michal Marek Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" , Robert Richter , Linus Torvalds , Russell King , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1630 Lines: 47 On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Michal Marek wrote: > On 9.10.2013 09:18, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> Sorry for chiming in that late, but I didn't think of this when reading the >> original submission. >> >> Just doing "make oldconfig; make install" used to work. > > On ARM and maybe other architectures. Until 2009 it also worked on x86 ;-) >> Removing the dependency of "make vmlinux" on vmlinux breaks this, doesn't it? > >> Not that I'm strongly attached to it, but there may be other users... > > We can't eat the cake and have it :). What can be done is to make Sure. > arch/arm/boot/install.sh print a friendlier error message, like the x86 > version does: > > if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then > echo "" 1>&2 > echo " *** Missing file: $1" 1>&2 > echo ' *** You need to run "make" before "make install".' 1>&2 > echo "" 1>&2 > exit 1 > fi Definitely! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/