From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] kbuild: link of vmlinux moved to a script Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:28:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20120428205651.GA7426@merkur.ravnborg.org> <20120428205919.GC7442@merkur.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120428205919.GC7442@merkur.ravnborg.org> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: linux arch , lkml , linux-kbuild , Michal Marek , Richard Weinberger , "David S. Miller" , Arnaud Lacombe , Andi Kleen List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 22:59, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Move the final link of vmlinux to a script to improve > readability and maintainability of the code. > The Makefil fragments used to link vmlinux has over the Makefile > years seen far too much changes and the logic was very =2E.. too many ... > hard to follow. > "um" has special link requirments - and the > only was to handle this was to hard-code the linking only way ... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-= m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker= =2E But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something li= ke that. =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:47866 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752767Ab2D2I2J convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Apr 2012 04:28:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120428205919.GC7442@merkur.ravnborg.org> References: <20120428205651.GA7426@merkur.ravnborg.org> <20120428205919.GC7442@merkur.ravnborg.org> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:28:08 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] kbuild: link of vmlinux moved to a script From: Geert Uytterhoeven Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: linux arch , lkml , linux-kbuild , Michal Marek , Richard Weinberger , "David S. Miller" , Arnaud Lacombe , Andi Kleen Message-ID: <20120429082808.CT3NqaIBmbPfL-1nhzX9jjyYmuNvaCckgybFRR2jMv0@z> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 22:59, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Move the final link of vmlinux to a script to improve > readability and maintainability of the code. > The Makefil fragments used to link vmlinux has over the Makefile > years seen far too much changes and the logic was very ... too many ... > hard to follow. > "um" has special link requirments - and the > only was to handle this was to hard-code the linking only way ... Gr{oetje,eeting}s,                         Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.                                 -- Linus Torvalds