From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] kbuild: use INSTALLKERNEL to select customized	installkernel
 script
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:19:59 -0700
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Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> While working on a patch to save ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE
> Peter Z noticed that it would cause "make install" to fail
> if we used the setting of CROSS_COMPILE from build time.
> 
> I took a closer look at it and the final conclusion was that
> we should not use CROSS_COMPILE to select installkernel script,
> so I redid that in the following patch.
> 
> The patch has also appeared on linux-kernel and linux-kbuild in
> the thread: "[PATCH] kbuild: save ARCH & CROSS_COMPILE when building a kernel"
> 
> I decided to post it here so relevant arch maintainers has been notified,
> and thus given the option to comment on it.
> 
> Assuming this is not NACK'ed I will include the patch in kbuild-next.git
> 

Fine with me.

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

	-hpa