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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: PATCH 2.4.4.3: 3rdparty driver support for kbuild 
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:03:45 -0400, 
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 05:25:24 -0400,
>> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>> >The attached patch, against kernel 2.4.4-pre3, adds a feature I call
>> >"3rd-party support."
>> 
>> Already covered by my 2.5 makefile rewrite[1] which has explicit
>> support for third party kernel source.
>
>I don't see how multiple source trees can be merged automatically with
>100% accuracy.  

I agree, multiple source trees only work 100% for non-overlapping code.
It does not matter how you implement separate source, the moment it
overlaps you need human intervention.  That is true for my makefile-2.5
as well as your Perl method.

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