From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.236]:55589 "EHLO pfepb.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753171AbZAGU1c (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:27:32 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:29:13 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2/3] KBUILD: Add a symlink to the source for separate objdirs Message-ID: <20090107202913.GJ4647@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20090103321.351399938@firstfloor.org> <20090103022142.684153E6651@basil.firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090103022142.684153E6651@basil.firstfloor.org> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:21:42AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > I have some scripts which need to map back to the source directory > from an objdir. This was so far done by parsing the Makefile, > but the Makefile format changes occasionally and breaks my scripts > then. > > To make this more reliable add a "source" symlink back. > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Like we do when we install modules. Agreed this is usefull. Applied. Sam