On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:54:42AM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
How far down the list was make it not take twice as long
to build the kernel as kbuild 2.4 ? Keith mentioned O(n^2)
effects due to each compile operation needing to reload
the dependancies etc.
Each compile needs to reload deps???
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:02:01AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
[ Btw, Jeff, any reason why you changed your name to Legacy Fishtank? It
took a few mails before I noticed that it also said garzik in the
fine print;]
Away-from-home account and a long story :)
Jeff
I think one thing to note is that dependencies is that if you are smart
about it, dependencies -really- do not even change when your .config
changes.
What about a system where Linus runs make deps -once- before he
releases a tarball. This in turn generates dependency information
(perhaps not in
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:45:37PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Legacy Fishtank [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
For single-file drivers, I like Becker's (correct credit?) system...
about 10 lines of metadata is embedded in a C comment, and it includes
the Config.in and Configure.help info.
I
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:02:01AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Something I also asked for the config system at least a year ago was to
have Configure.help split up. Never happened. It's still one large ugly
file. Driver or architecture maintainers still can't just change _their_
small
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 12:26:49PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:16:03 -0500,
Legacy Fishtank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think one thing to note is that dependencies is that if you are smart
about it, dependencies -really- do not even change when your .config
changes
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 12:27:24PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
Dependencies _do_ change when your .config changes, the list of files
that are included varies.
1) #ifdef CONFIG_FOO #include ... is usually wrong and a bug. But
that is a tangent and I digress.
2) Such changes can be expressed
