Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263011AbTESVnD (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 17:43:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263025AbTESVnD (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 17:43:03 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com ([204.127.198.38]:1195 "EHLO rwcrmhc51.attbi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263011AbTESVnB (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 17:43:01 -0400 Message-ID: <3EC952E9.9080201@quark.didntduck.org> Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 17:55:53 -0400 From: Brian Gerst User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: Brian Gerst , Kai Germaschewski , Linus Torvalds , Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update fs Makefiles References: <3EC82A7D.5090105@quark.didntduck.org> <20030519170226.GB983@mars.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20030519170226.GB983@mars.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 934 Lines: 33 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 08:51:09PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > >>Convert foo-objs to newer-style foo-y. > > > The paths looks correct. > But do we really want to go that far, and deprecate the -objs syntax? > > >>-adfs-objs := dir.o dir_f.o dir_fplus.o file.o inode.o map.o super.o >>+adfs-y := dir.o dir_f.o dir_fplus.o file.o inode.o map.o super.o > > > The patch contains a lot of changes like the above - and they > are only relevant if we deprecate the -objs syntax. > > Opinions anyone? > > Sam > Why have two methods of doing the same thing? foo-y is clearly the preferred method because it is easy to work with conditionals. -- Brian Gerst - 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/