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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
	colpatch@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] NUMAQ subarchification
Date: 15 Mar 2003 23:05:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1047791157.1963.212.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303152036250.27065-100000@chaos.physics.uiowa.edu>

On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 20:53, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> I think VPATH has never been meant to be used for anything like this, it 
> could be make to work, though it would interfere with the separate src/obj 
> thing. But I don't think it's a good idea, we'll have object files 
> magically appear without any visible source file, that's just too obscure.

Well...There is a slightly different solution.

What if the summit/numaq setup.c simply contained 

#include "../mach-default/setup.c"

?

Not that I like doing this, but it solves the "magic" appearace of the
object file and it's perfectly clear to anyone editing the file where it
really comes from.

James



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-16  4:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-14 21:12 [patch] Summit support for pcibus <-> cpumask topology James Bottomley
2003-03-15  1:41 ` [patch] Summit support for pcibus <-> cpumask topology [1/2] Matthew Dobson
2003-03-15  1:43   ` [patch] Summit support for pcibus <-> cpumask topology [2/2] Matthew Dobson
2003-03-15  1:46   ` [patch] NUMAQ subarchification Matthew Dobson
2003-03-15  2:05     ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-15 17:53       ` James Bottomley
2003-03-15 17:58         ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-16  2:53         ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-03-16  3:22           ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-16  5:05           ` James Bottomley [this message]
2003-03-16  5:55             ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-03-16 14:36               ` James Bottomley
2003-03-16  1:07       ` Alan Cox
2003-03-16  2:24         ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-16  4:31         ` James Bottomley
2003-03-18  1:58       ` Matthew Dobson
2003-03-18 16:16         ` James Bottomley
2003-03-18 16:30           ` Martin J. Bligh

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