Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265515AbUFTVco (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:32:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265537AbUFTVcn (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:32:43 -0400 Received: from wblv-235-33.telkomadsl.co.za ([165.165.235.33]:11447 "EHLO gateway.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265515AbUFTVcW (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:32:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: Improved external module support From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: Martin Schlemmer To: arjanv@redhat.com Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing Lists , Andreas Gruenbacher , Geert Uytterhoeven , Kai Germaschewski In-Reply-To: <1087766729.2805.15.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> References: <20040620211905.GA10189@mars.ravnborg.org> <20040620212353.GD10189@mars.ravnborg.org> <1087766729.2805.15.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-YGG/PRmqJXmXn/IA04AO" Message-Id: <1087767103.14794.44.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 23:31:44 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1652 Lines: 51 --=-YGG/PRmqJXmXn/IA04AO Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 23:25, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > # 3) The build symlink now points to the output of the kernel > > # compile. > > # - When a kernel is compiled with output and source > > # mixed, the build and source symlinks will point > > # to the same directory. In this case there is > > # no change in behaviour. >=20 > > # It is recommended that distributions pick up this > > # method, and especially start shipping kernel output and > > # source separately. > > # =20 >=20 > I don't see the point of this; module builds don't use the output of the > kernel compile but the SOURCE, eg the headers and Makefiles. >=20 > I don't see a reason for this change; at least what I ship right now for > the Fedora Core 2 kernel seems to work for all modules with sane > makefiles so far.... And is going to break a lot of things - IMHO not an change for a 'stable' release. --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-YGG/PRmqJXmXn/IA04AO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBA1gI/qburzKaJYLYRAg1qAJ993BSrbmEN8HH6xglKmkeQKOe4mACeO3WF 9aox7tprDCqGOH8z/nZkLrE= =aLG+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-YGG/PRmqJXmXn/IA04AO-- - 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/