From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 01:35:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 01:34:59 -0400 Received: from ppp0.ocs.com.au ([203.34.97.3]:43025 "HELO mail.ocs.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 01:34:45 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 From: Keith Owens To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: stimits@idcomm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Cleanup kbuild for aic7xxx In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:14:49 CST." <200106230514.f5N5EnU84722@aslan.scsiguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 15:34:39 +1000 Message-ID: <13785.993274479@ocs3.ocs-net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:14:49 -0600, "Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: >Can you explain why this would be the case? Are you saying that SGI >is building the generated file and also keeping it in their revision >control system? If so, wouldn't their shipped config also include >building the firmware? SGI's source control system marks the supplied files as read only to prevent accidental updates. That causes problems when generated files are updated in place, see my long memo about why this is bad. I am guessing that SGI had problems with the earlier version of your Makefile (it always generated the files) so they excluded the generated files from their repository. Changing aic7xxx kbuild so it does not overwrite supplied files will fix this class of problem for all source repositories, not just SGI.