Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265964AbUFTWQr (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:16:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265965AbUFTWQq (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:16:46 -0400 Received: from wblv-235-33.telkomadsl.co.za ([165.165.235.33]:21175 "EHLO gateway.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265964AbUFTWQl (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:16:41 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] kbuild updates From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: Martin Schlemmer To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing Lists , Andreas Gruenbacher , Geert Uytterhoeven , Kai Germaschewski In-Reply-To: <20040620220319.GA10407@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <20040620211905.GA10189@mars.ravnborg.org> <1087767034.14794.42.camel@nosferatu.lan> <20040620220319.GA10407@mars.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-TpQ3/RKmP1nnKiYcttLg" Message-Id: <1087769761.14794.69.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 00:16:02 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1769 Lines: 54 --=-TpQ3/RKmP1nnKiYcttLg Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 00:03, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:30:34PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > >=20 > > I know Sam's mta blocks my mail at least (lame isp), but for the rest, > > please reconsider using this. > Hmm, got your mail. >=20 > > Many external modules, libs, etc use > > /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build to locate the _source_, and this will > > break them all. > Examples please. What I have seen so far is modules that was not > adapted to use kbuild when being build. > If they fail to do so they are inherently broken. >=20 Well, glibc use it for instance as an fall-through if you do not specify it via ./configure arguments, or environment (yes, glibc should not use it, etc, etc, no flames please =3D). So as well does alsa-driver, nvidia's drivers (gah, puke, yes, its got some binary-only stuff in there ;), ati's drivers and a lot of other stuff (if you really need them all I can try to find time to look for more). I am not sure about ati's drivers and alsa, but nvidia uses kbuild. Thanks, --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-TpQ3/RKmP1nnKiYcttLg 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) iD8DBQBA1gyhqburzKaJYLYRAuiRAJ9AGCtlaldgdCOdxwRfzyZAPI2mkACfR9/V q/vLq/eTOG8wRJEpavuQh8E= =5zpW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-TpQ3/RKmP1nnKiYcttLg-- - 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/