Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: Improved external module support

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>]

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On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 23:25, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > #   3) The build symlink now points to the output of the kernel
> > #      compile.
> > #      - When a kernel is compiled with output and source
> > #        mixed, the build and source symlinks will point
> > #        to the same directory. In this case there is
> > #        no change in behaviour.
> 
> > #   It is recommended that distributions pick up this
> > #   method, and especially start shipping kernel output and
> > #   source separately.
> > #   
> 
> I don't see the point of this; module builds don't use the output of the
> kernel compile but the SOURCE, eg the headers and Makefiles.
> 
> I don't see a reason for this change; at least what I ship right now for
> the Fedora Core 2 kernel seems to work for all modules with sane
> makefiles so far....

And is going to break a lot of things - IMHO not an change for a
'stable' release.


-- 
Martin Schlemmer

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