From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mark Galeck <mark_galeck@pacbell.net>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: is it desirable to improve the build system?
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 07:51:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130702145135.GA975@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1372754805.73620.YahooMailNeo@web182206.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 01:46:45AM -0700, Mark Galeck wrote:
> >> Linux kernel build, while correct, is somewhat slow, and the sources
>
> >> could be more readable.
>
> Greg wrote:
> >How is it "slow"?
>
> Well, the proportion of time spent by the CPU cores on activities
> other than compiling seemed high.
Really? What is that proportion?
> >What "sources" are you referring to as being not readable?
>
> Not "not readable at all", just "could be made more readable" - the
> main Makefile and other main Make files; it seemed that one reason,
> IMHO, was not enough comments.
Everyone always wants more comments :)
Have you read the documentation about the build system that we have in
the kernel Documentation/ directory?
There is also a mailing list just for the build system as well, see the
MAINTAINERS file for details.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-02 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-02 0:12 is it desirable to improve the build system? Mark Galeck
2013-07-02 4:45 ` Greg KH
2013-07-02 8:46 ` Mark Galeck
2013-07-02 14:51 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-07-11 11:38 ` Pavel Machek
2013-07-11 20:40 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-07-11 21:22 ` Mark Galeck
2013-07-12 8:32 ` Richard Cochran
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