Re: [kbuild-devel] kbuild status

2002-10-07 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Brendan J Simon] Is there a site that documents the changes the Kai has made or is making ? Well, there's http://www.??.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/ChangLog-*, search for kai@. He seems to have started in 2.5.7. Off the top of my head, the main kbuild2.5 features 2.5.40 *doesn't* have

Re: [kbuild-devel] kbuild status

2002-10-07 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Brendan J Simon] Thanks for that information. Looks like Kai's work will/may eventually do what I want but when will it be mainstream, that is the question. If by mainstream you mean in 2.4, probably never. There is just no motivation to backport it, and I doubt Marcelo would accept the

Re: [kbuild-devel] kbuild status

2002-10-07 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 07:30:18PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: I hear ya. Remember the 2.1.1xx days? Linus looked at the relatively mature uusb project and basically said Wow, what a load of crap, the usb spec isn't *nearly* this complex. Then he spent a weekend hacking up an extremely

[kbuild-devel] Re: RfC: Don't cd into subdirs during kbuild

2002-10-07 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le jeu 03/10/2002 à 04:59, Kai Germaschewski a écrit : Hi, I'd appreciate to get comments on the appended patch. It's mostly cleanups and the like, but the interesting part is the last cset, which is actually fairly small: 14 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-) The

[kbuild-devel] Re: RfC: Don't cd into subdirs during kbuild

2002-10-07 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le jeu 03/10/2002 à 16:56, Kai Germaschewski a écrit : This would avoid recursive make, which isn't really a good idea (even if it's used widely). Here is a good agument about that: http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~soumen/teach/cs699a1999/make.html I think I heard that before, but I would

[kbuild-devel] Re: RfC: Don't cd into subdirs during kbuild

2002-10-07 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Sam Ravnborg wrote: -obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER) := $(patsubst %.c,%.o,$(wildcard *.c)) +obj-y := dsfield.o dsmthdat.o dsopcode.o dswexec.o dswscope.o \ +dsmethod.o dsobject.o dsutils.o dswload.o dswstate.o Should that have been:

[kbuild-devel] Re: RfC: Don't cd into subdirs during kbuild

2002-10-07 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:01:20PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: Now it's testing time.. [...] You must be missing some of the changes (My first push to bkbits was incomplete, since I did inadvertently edit Makefile without checking it out, I do that

[kbuild-devel] Re: RfC: Don't cd into subdirs during kbuild

2002-10-07 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On 3 Oct 2002, Xavier Bestel wrote: Could you do instead: include subdir/Makefile ? It's not quite that easy, unfortunately ;( This would avoid recursive make, which isn't really a good idea (even if it's used widely). Here is a good agument about that: