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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:40:43 -0600
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
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To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Subject: Re: xfs: Makefile-linux-2.6 => Makefile?
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Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>Sam, is there any way to make this work with some code for the module in a 
>>subdirectory?
> 
> 
> Hi Eric.
> I forgot to point out one ugly solution for this.
> You can include a dummy Kbuild (Makefile) in each directory to support
> this. I recall that reiser4 had similar question and this was the
> solution I pointed out for them too.
> No - I am not in favour of it. But for local development it could make
> sense.
> So it may solve the "Eric" part of it, but not the "Andrew" part of it
> since these file will never get in the mainstream kernel (hopefully).
> 
> 	Sam

Thanks, Sam - I'd considered that, too.  We may do it locally.

-Eric
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