On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:58:04 -0500
Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > > 
> > > --- a/Makefile
> > > +++ b/Makefile
> > > @@ -309,7 +309,8 @@ AFLAGS_KERNEL =
> > >  LINUXINCLUDE    := -Iinclude \
> > >                     $(if $(KBUILD_SRC),-Iinclude2 -I$(srctree)/include) \
> > >              -include include/linux/autoconf.h \
> > > -            -include linux/marker.h
> > > +            -include \
> > > +                 $(if $(KBUILD_SRC),$(srctree)/)include/linux/marker.h
> > >  
> > >  CPPFLAGS        := -D__KERNEL__ $(LINUXINCLUDE)
> > 
> > But what is so magical about marker.h to justify special-case treatment at 
> > the
> > kbuid level?
> 
> Idealistically speaking, nothing. It is however much easier to maintain
> an external set of patches introducing markers within the kernel tree :
> most of the rejects between kernel version comes from new includes that
> comes in the way.
> 
> So this is there more by convenience than requirement.

No sale.  Let's kill it, please ;)
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