Quoting Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting "Horatio B. Bogbindero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > could have just did a 'make dep' instead of manually adding the links > > yourself. > > When you do a "make dep" you are told that this method is old and is > not a necessary step. Also in the older kernels, "make config" or > the equivalent "make ____config" took care of creating the links, > not "make dep". Further "make config" does not create the asm-generic > link, which for some reason is needed by the build system for 2.5 and 2.6. > I think it is just that 2.5 and 2.6.0-test1 are just too experimental > and too many things are just not yet in place. > > P~Manalastas > oh. so they finally decided to use the new kbuild for 2.6.0-test1. i was not able to check out 2.6 yet. but i know that the 2.5 series kernels are back compatible with the old kbuilds.
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