On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Peter Samuelson wrote:
With !KBUILD_VERBOSE output, you can't tell whether a CC or LD line is
for a module or for the kernel proper. Sure, most people probably
don't care, but *I* do. Hence this patch. Output:
CC vmlinux-object.o
CC [M] standalone-module.o
[Kai Germaschewski]
This looks generally looks okay to me, I don't like the subtle
difference between stand-alone and partial module, though, probably
nobody can remember that, anyway ;) And there is really no difference
in the command line, so why print something different.
The idea was
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:21:11PM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Peter Samuelson wrote:
The idea was that [M] is printed whenever a new module is born.
(M) means a module is in progress.
What people will see is that
[Kai Germaschewski]
Well, it's not that my life depends on it ;)
Heh.
But I see the non-verbose mode as an abbreviated view of what
happens, and normally you cannot see the difference between module or
part of module, so it appears inconsistent to have that distinction
in the short view?
[Kai Germaschewski]
I completely agree, though it weakens my argument about consistency ;)
Heh.
Now we only need to convince Peter.
I just sent you a patch with all [M], so I guess you can consider me
sufficiently convinced. I'm not, really, but it's hardly an important
issue, so I figured
With !KBUILD_VERBOSE output, you can't tell whether a CC or LD line is
for a module or for the kernel proper. Sure, most people probably
don't care, but *I* do. Hence this patch. Output:
CC vmlinux-object.o
CC [M] standalone-module.o
CC (M) partial-module.o
LD built-in.o
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:58:26AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
With !KBUILD_VERBOSE output, you can't tell whether a CC or LD line is
for a module or for the kernel proper. Sure, most people probably
don't care, but *I* do. Hence this patch. Output:
CC vmlinux-object.o
CC
