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Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:50:56 +0000
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: "Theodore Tso" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: <ccache@lists.samba.org>, "Sam Ravnborg" <sam@ravnborg.org>,
       <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] Recent change to kernel spikes out
	 ccache/distcc
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>>> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> 06.01.09 18:33 >>>
>On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 03:29:35PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> 06.01.09 16:15 >>>
>> >In the short term, though, it would be nice if we could get back a
>> >simple way of making a kernel  object file using just cc, so that ccache
>> >and distcc could be functional again.   Does that seem reasonable?
>> 
>> Making the new logic dependent on a config option would seem reasonable
>> to me - of course at the expense of the respective Makefile becoming
>> even less readable.
>
>Too late.  :-) It's pretty unreadable already.... as a result, I'm not
>at all confident that I could make such a patch.  Is this something
>you could perhaps whip up?  I'd really appreicate it, as it would
>seriously speed up by kernel development efforts.

Yes, I think I could (and in fact I already put it on my to-do list), but I can't
give a good prediction on when I'd be able to get to it.

Jan

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