Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753584AbYJXWwf (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:52:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751011AbYJXWw1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:52:27 -0400 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:45452 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750714AbYJXWw1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:52:27 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 470 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:52:26 EDT Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:51:21 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: David Miller Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, alistair@devzero.co.uk, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1 Message-ID: <20081024225121.GA19759@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <200810241345.04966.rjw@sisk.pl> <200810241352.45745.alistair@devzero.co.uk> <20081024.153139.36591021.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081024.153139.36591021.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1328 Lines: 33 On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 03:31:39PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Linus Torvalds > Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:17:53 -0700 (PDT) > > > Now, _another_ part (and arguably the really core reason) of this problem > > is that our Makefile rules for the asm include directory is weak and > > unreliable in the presense of already-existing unexpected entries. > > I guess we could use seperate "stamp" files to deal with this. > > Along with the generated file "foo" there is a "foo.stamp" file > that is generated with "touch" after "foo" is built. I remember I made an attempt doing so long time ago for the asm symlink. But why it failed for me I dunno. We used this trick in many archs before but as part of the header move to arch/$ARCH we have killed almost all uses of symlink to reach certain files. The asm symlink is only used by asm-offsett.h for most archs these days and when I get around to it I will fix that too so we can kill it entirely. But first we need to move all archs headers to arch/$ARCH. And we are getting there. Sam -- 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/