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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: DTC 1.0.0 Release Coming?
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:59:00 +0200
To: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
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>>> Actually, after discussions with Stephen and Paulus, we decided not 
>>> to
>>> take this route.  In any case having Kbuild like versioning wouldn't
>>> actually help us any in integrating into a full Kbuild system.
>>
>> Can you elaborate why you decided not to?  I'm just curious.
>
> We decided that since a formal dtc release was imminent, it would be
> simpler to make dtc a new kernel build requirement,

For _all_ kernel builds?  Most people building a powerpc
kernel don't need it.


Segher