Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261308AbTETWlp (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 18:41:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261311AbTETWlk (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 18:41:40 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com ([204.127.198.39]:19915 "EHLO rwcrmhc53.attbi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261308AbTETWlh (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 18:41:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3ECAB224.9070002@quark.didntduck.org> Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 18:54:28 -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: Kai Germaschewski CC: mikpe@csd.uu.se, Brian Gerst , Sam Ravnborg , Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update fs Makefiles References: In-Reply-To: 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: 1106 Lines: 36 Kai Germaschewski wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 2003 mikpe@csd.uu.se wrote: > > >>Kai Germaschewski writes: >> > o Possibly add "-y" support to 2.4 (it's a pretty trivial change) >> >>That's the worst thing you could do for those of us maintaining >>2.4/2.5 compatibility in drivers etc. >>Having to check "oh I'm in 2.4, let's see if I'm in 2.4.23 or >>$VENDOR 2.4.blah because then these random 2.5-like changes occurred" >>sucks like h*ll. > > > It'd be an additional feature, i.e. if it causes trouble for the code you > maintain, don't use it. > > People who want a Makefile which works in all 2.4 + vendor then would > choose to stay with -objs, whereas people who prefer do have 2.4.latest > and 2.5 in sync could use -y, like, I'd guess, USB. > > --Kai Easiest way to maintain 2.4 compatability is to add: foo-objs := $(foo-y) -- 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/