>> Currently ‘make-linux-libre’ is not public, but we could probably make >> it public (David, WDYT?). In the meantime, in your own module, you can >> do.
> I think we should avoid exporting 'make-linux-libre' in its current > form. Although it was an improvement in some ways over what we had > previously, I've found it to be an inadequate interface in many > respects, and in my opinion it needs to be redesigned. I don't have > time to make a case now, but in practice it leads to redundancy. I agree that there is room for improvement. But I don't think it's as easy as it may seem... > For example, when I recently added security fixes to linux-libre, I needed > to add the patches in two separate places, and every time I update the > version, I need to update two places as well. I believe this was on purpose to avoid having to rebuild two kernels every time. I was impatient to get this stuff into master because my linux libre arm kernel wasn't building on the beagle bone black (not enough RAM). I think some more patience could have made things better =P
