From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: T Ziomek <ctz001@email.mot.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>, Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] scripts/package: add powerpc images to tarball
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:49:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080728164922.GA21159@secretlab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080728163435.GE27068@email.mot.com>
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:34:35AM -0500, T Ziomek wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 01:53:57PM -0400, Grant Likely wrote:
> . . .
> > Come to think of it, I'd support just removing the zImage symlink
> > entirely to eliminate confusion so that everyone knows that 'make
> > zImage' is the 'make all' for default image targets.
>
> That ("zImage" means all default image targets) seems pretty non-intui-
> tive; why not something like 'make all_def_images'?
It is purely historical. zImage and modules have been the default
make targets for a long time. I'm not opposed to changing it, but it is
a change that affects almost everyone. I'd like to see some consensus
before going down this path.
g.
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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: T Ziomek <ctz001@email.mot.com>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] scripts/package: add powerpc images to tarball
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:49:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080728164922.GA21159@secretlab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080728163435.GE27068@email.mot.com>
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:34:35AM -0500, T Ziomek wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 01:53:57PM -0400, Grant Likely wrote:
> . . .
> > Come to think of it, I'd support just removing the zImage symlink
> > entirely to eliminate confusion so that everyone knows that 'make
> > zImage' is the 'make all' for default image targets.
>
> That ("zImage" means all default image targets) seems pretty non-intui-
> tive; why not something like 'make all_def_images'?
It is purely historical. zImage and modules have been the default
make targets for a long time. I'm not opposed to changing it, but it is
a change that affects almost everyone. I'd like to see some consensus
before going down this path.
g.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-28 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-24 8:17 [RFC,PATCH] scripts/package: add powerpc images to tarball Jeremy Kerr
2008-07-25 1:08 ` Milton Miller
2008-07-25 1:11 ` Jeremy Kerr
2008-07-26 3:59 ` Milton Miller
2008-07-26 4:55 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-26 4:55 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-26 17:20 ` Milton Miller
2008-07-26 17:53 ` Grant Likely
2008-07-28 16:34 ` T Ziomek
2008-07-28 16:34 ` T Ziomek
2008-07-28 16:49 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2008-07-28 16:49 ` Grant Likely
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