From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.avm.de (mail.avm.de [212.42.244.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 20D195EE89 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2024 10:43:15 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=212.42.244.120 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1709635403; cv=none; b=SC3ZMGgJ6wpIj49HYEvhbX42iejfTu3a9s0ZbrhD14Y79/EkdBs08jqYVmib46tl78o6aXaplkDMMXB4eotp1XGXTqCaTlRxeejrPQlIHGrMvOkUwrHyIr8PqNamzGkkgzhgVaOMTqqC12IN3TmLXiPKJXc83CBwcVvN+sG0Cnk= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1709635403; c=relaxed/simple; bh=LnXSi7eNOJfo9PIrjCrbKHZYI886Pumm65dmt4n2m1c=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=qWji+tSNwcl3LsmfVvguRLOe3rAm0/V7P9mGtyv5a5TVPZMe86mTRwCH/u8/4MRqhlH1EHIaCUubfzVqQYtHpwL0USbjqaSNRm4qaqc8mA6vgfbKiNhWovEk+1RDN8z7u8vdJ8wjZCYdWlMnCBBFLH+Bqb8cixp8kHhOV4XKB8M= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=fjasle.eu; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=avm.de; arc=none smtp.client-ip=212.42.244.120 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=fjasle.eu Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=avm.de Received: from mail-auth.avm.de (dovecot-mx-01.avm.de [212.42.244.71]) by mail.avm.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS; Tue, 5 Mar 2024 11:43:06 +0100 (CET) Received: from buildd.core.avm.de (buildd-sv-01.avm.de [172.16.0.225]) by mail-auth.avm.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C4D4080155; Tue, 5 Mar 2024 11:43:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by buildd.core.avm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B87F318B48A; Tue, 5 Mar 2024 11:43:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 11:43:07 +0100 From: Nicolas Schier To: Elliott Mitchell Cc: masahiroy@kernel.org, nathan@kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [WIP PATCH 00/30] Adding trailing slash to $(*tree) Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-purgate-ID: 149429::1709635386-037B4E5D-AE01A2F8/0/0 X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-size: 979 X-purgate-Ad: Categorized by eleven eXpurgate (R) http://www.eleven.de X-purgate: This mail is considered clean (visit http://www.eleven.de for further information) X-purgate: clean On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 11:36:27AM -0800, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 10:57:18AM +0100, Nicolas Schier wrote: > > > > can you please describe a concrete problem you want to solve with your > > patch set? Masahiro already asked in [1], and I still don't get your > > motivation while reading your cover letter. It would be helpful to see > > your goal when looking at your patches. > > I'm trying to develop an alternative kernel build system for one Linux > distribution. Due to how other pieces of the distribution work it seems > using the out-of-tree build mechanism to build in-tree modules may be a > better approach. This may be abusing the current build system, but if it > works without breaking anything else that should be acceptable. oh well. You are probably aware of things like subdir-ccflags-y and that kmods built via M= are considered to be out-of-tree and taint the kernel. Good luck. Kind regards, Nicolas