Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 07:54:03 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel source tree splitting
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Martin J. Bligh wrote:

>> So there are many edits that needed to be done in lots of
>> Kconfig and Makefiles if one selectively pulls or omits certain
>> sub-directories.
>
> Indeed, I ran across the same thing a while back. Would be *really* nice to
> fix, if only so some poor sod over a modem can download a smaller tarball,
> or save some diskspace.

 I have seven source trees on disk right now.  Getting rid off all
the archs but i386 would not only save tons of space, it would also
make 'grep -r' go faster and stop spewing irrelevant hits for archs
that I couldn't care less about.


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 Chuck
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