From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/8] Remove 'TOPDIR' from Makefiles
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 11:09:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080101100930.GA28913@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080101071311.GA2496@hacking>
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 03:13:11PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
>
> TOPDIR is obsolete, use srctree or objtree instead.
Glad to see this being done - long overdue.
Most of your patches (if not all) replaces TOPDIR
with objtree but usage of objtree is only
correct when dealing with output files.
Note that objtree != srctree only for O=... builds.
And a few cases should be dealt with differently.
See individual comments.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-01 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-01 7:13 [Patch 0/8] Remove 'TOPDIR' from Makefiles WANG Cong
2008-01-01 7:18 ` [uml-devel] [Patch 1/8] UML: " WANG Cong
2008-01-01 7:18 ` WANG Cong
2008-01-01 10:33 ` [uml-devel] " Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-01 10:33 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-01 10:49 ` [uml-devel] " Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-01 10:49 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-01 13:01 ` [uml-devel] (Try #2) " WANG Cong
2008-01-01 13:01 ` WANG Cong
2008-01-02 15:02 ` [uml-devel] " Jeff Dike
2008-01-02 15:02 ` Jeff Dike
2008-01-02 17:27 ` [uml-devel] " Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-02 17:27 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-01 7:22 ` [Patch 2/8] MIPS: " WANG Cong
2008-01-01 10:15 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-01 13:11 ` (Try #2) " WANG Cong
2008-01-01 13:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-01 17:57 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-02 6:21 ` (Try #3) " WANG Cong
2008-01-02 19:24 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-11 14:17 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-01-11 14:17 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-01-11 14:17 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-01-11 17:02 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-14 6:26 ` WANG Cong
2008-01-01 7:25 ` [Patch 3/8] S390: " WANG Cong
2008-01-01 10:17 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-01 13:27 ` (Try #2) [Patch 3/8] S390: Tiny fixes for Makefile WANG Cong
2008-01-01 17:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-02 6:42 ` (Try #3) [Patch 3/8] S390: Remove 'TOPDIR' from Makefile WANG Cong
2008-01-02 9:31 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-01-02 9:49 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-01 7:29 ` [Patch 4/8] CRIS: Remove 'TOPDIR' from Makefiles WANG Cong
2008-01-01 10:20 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-01 13:34 ` (Try #2) " WANG Cong
2008-01-02 6:27 ` (Try #3) " WANG Cong
2008-01-02 19:25 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-03 17:03 ` Jesper Nilsson
2008-01-03 19:59 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-01 7:33 ` [Patch 5/8] INFINIBAND: " WANG Cong
2008-01-01 10:26 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-01 13:41 ` (Try #2) " WANG Cong
2008-01-02 19:26 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-01 7:36 ` [Patch 6/8] FRV: " WANG Cong
2008-01-01 10:27 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-01 14:00 ` (Try #2) [Patch 6/8] FRV: Drop " WANG Cong
2008-01-02 19:26 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-01 7:41 ` [Patch 7/8] FS: Remove " WANG Cong
2008-01-01 10:30 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-01 14:28 ` (Try #2) [Patch 7/8] FS: Drop 'TOPDIR' from Makefiles and remove some dead code WANG Cong
2008-01-02 19:27 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-01 17:27 ` [xfs-masters] [Patch 7/8] FS: Remove 'TOPDIR' from Makefiles Eric Sandeen
2008-01-01 17:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-02 5:55 ` (Try #3) [Patch 7/8] FS: Remove dead code WANG Cong
2008-01-01 7:43 ` [Patch 8/8] Remove 'TOPDIR' from the Top Makefile WANG Cong
2008-01-01 10:09 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2008-01-02 9:51 ` [Patch 0/8] Remove 'TOPDIR' from Makefiles Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-03 4:37 ` WANG Cong
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