Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:37:03 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
       Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       sam@ravenborg.org, kai@germaschewski.name
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not rebuild full kernel tree again and again...
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 03:31:06AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
 Wouldn't it be better to have an option to tell make to assume the old 
> behavior? I only skimmed the original thread but it didn't seem terribly 
> complex thing to do. A LOT of people will be doing things on pre-2.6.17 
> kernel for quite some time and they will be cursing a lot if they have 
> to rebuild everything everytime.

If Paul planned for a new make relase this year - then yes.
But I assume it will take another year (almost) before next make realse
after the current 3.81. And then it should not matter much.

	Sam
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