From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH 2.4.4.3: 3rdparty driver support for kbuild
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:10:16 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13243.988067416@ocs3.ocs-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:03:45 -0400." <3AE4B4D1.A4A17FD6@mandrakesoft.com>
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:03:45 -0400,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>Keith Owens wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 05:25:24 -0400,
>> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
>> >The attached patch, against kernel 2.4.4-pre3, adds a feature I call
>> >"3rd-party support."
>>
>> Already covered by my 2.5 makefile rewrite[1] which has explicit
>> support for third party kernel source.
>
>I don't see how multiple source trees can be merged automatically with
>100% accuracy.
I agree, multiple source trees only work 100% for non-overlapping code.
It does not matter how you implement separate source, the moment it
overlaps you need human intervention. That is true for my makefile-2.5
as well as your Perl method.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-23 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-15 9:25 PATCH 2.4.4.3: 3rdparty driver support for kbuild Jeff Garzik
2001-04-23 22:57 ` Keith Owens
2001-04-23 23:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-23 23:10 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2001-04-23 23:47 ` Jonathan Lundell
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