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From:   Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
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On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:19:40AM -0700, Ulf Carlsson wrote:

> > On 24-May-00 Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > [offset.h]
> > 
> > > A good solution is important now that we have SMP.  Toggling CONFIG_SMP
> > > affects offset.h and not for all variations of make invocations we
> > > actually have the guarantee that offset.h is being rebuilt before using
> > > it.
> > 
> > What about making offset.h to depend on $(TOPDIR)/.config?
> > 
> > This may cause unneccessary rebuilds of objects depending on offset.h after
> > configuration changes but it forces offset.h to be rebuilt when CONFIG_SMP is
> > toggled.
> 
> Would you mind removing the include/asm-$(ARCH)/offset.h from the CVS
> repository, I get conflicts and stuff when I update.  I don't see why we need
> to have a dummy file there.

Conceptually I don't like that either.

  Ralf