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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 02:08:13 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] improve gate generation
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>>>>> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 01:56:40 +0000, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> said:

  Matthew> This patch fixes a couple of things.
  Matthew> - gate.lds.s is generated in the obj tree, not the src tree.
  Matthew> - It can be generated by the normal .s.S rule.

OK.

  Matthew> - Adding the extra-y list prevents it from being rebuilt
  Matthew> unnecessarily.

Ah, so _that's_ the missing magic.

Now if only the patch applied with "patch -p1"...  (don't worry about
it this time---I fixed it by hand).

Thanks,

	--david