From: Andreas Bombe <bombe@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: State of the new config & build system
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 22:40:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020104214007.GA11072@storm.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020104014938.GA3474@storm.local> <24687.1010111468@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
In-Reply-To: <24687.1010111468@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 01:31:08PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 02:49:38 +0100,
> Andreas Bombe <bombe@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:
> >Unionfs as I understand it would be great for editing/patching and
> >building. Build a kernel in the pristine sources, mount a COW layer
> >over it where you patch/edit, build there. In the ideal case the COW
> >layer would only build the changed file(s) and link vmlinux with all the
> >other objects from the pristine build. This wouldn't affect the
> >pristine build itself at all, no make problems there when you remove the
> >COW build&change layer.
>
> You are talking about removing an entire layer, I am talking about
> removing individual files when you decide the edit failed. Removing
> the entire layer works, as long as all changes are always made to the
> top layer. Removing individual files gets into timestamp problems.
Duh, you are right. That can't be solved cleanly.
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Andreas Bombe <bombe@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> DSA key 0x04880A44
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Thread overview: 140+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-28 0:24 State of the new config & build system Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 0:54 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-28 0:57 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 1:15 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 1:35 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-28 1:37 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 1:41 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-28 1:47 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 1:57 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-28 2:01 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 14:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-28 14:16 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-28 17:14 ` Christer Weinigel
2001-12-28 17:39 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-29 1:44 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-29 4:09 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-30 3:34 ` Viktor Rosenfeld
2001-12-30 4:24 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-30 14:37 ` Viktor Rosenfeld
2001-12-29 17:11 ` Christer Weinigel
2001-12-28 17:43 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 18:17 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-28 20:54 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-29 9:24 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-12-29 16:28 ` Larry McVoy
2002-01-01 4:03 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2002-01-01 8:26 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-06 8:55 ` [kbuild-devel] " Martin Mares
2002-01-06 22:19 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-09 17:16 ` Martin Mares
2002-01-01 8:55 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-12-28 22:31 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-12-28 23:02 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 14:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-28 20:56 ` Kai Germaschewski
2001-12-28 21:16 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-28 22:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-28 23:44 ` Kai Germaschewski
2001-12-30 12:05 ` [kbuild-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2001-12-29 1:27 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-29 1:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-29 1:57 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-29 2:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-29 4:06 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-29 13:32 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-29 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-29 1:26 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-29 3:58 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-29 4:21 ` Mike Castle
2001-12-29 4:44 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-29 4:52 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-12-29 11:10 ` PORTUGUês EM?? Astinus
2001-12-29 6:59 ` State of the new config & build system Nicholas Knight
2001-12-29 7:42 ` Miles Lane
2001-12-29 8:02 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-12-29 8:11 ` Mike Castle
2001-12-29 7:41 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-29 8:13 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-29 9:40 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-03 10:46 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-03 20:29 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-03 20:35 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-03 20:46 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-03 21:30 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-03 21:50 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-03 22:11 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-03 22:44 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-04 1:49 ` Andreas Bombe
2002-01-04 2:31 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-04 21:40 ` Andreas Bombe [this message]
2001-12-28 22:51 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-29 2:54 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-29 12:43 ` Kai Germaschewski
2001-12-28 1:22 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-28 1:36 ` [kbuild-devel] " Tom Rini
2001-12-28 1:36 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 1:38 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-28 1:30 ` [kbuild-devel] " Keith Owens
2001-12-28 9:26 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-28 9:42 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-28 16:34 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-28 20:01 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 20:38 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-29 0:50 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-29 0:55 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-28 18:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-28 22:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-28 22:08 ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 22:29 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 22:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-28 22:58 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-29 9:18 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2001-12-31 22:51 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-31 22:55 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-01-01 1:21 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-12-28 19:08 ` Riley Williams
2001-12-28 19:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 20:26 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-28 20:39 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-30 13:58 ` [kbuild-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2001-12-30 17:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-30 20:53 ` Hartmut Holz
2001-12-30 20:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-01-01 4:29 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-31 23:32 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-28 23:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-30 11:42 ` [kbuild-devel] " Kai Henningsen
2001-12-31 8:24 ` GOTO Masanori
2001-12-31 6:50 ` GOTO Masanori
2001-12-28 22:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-28 22:31 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-29 21:24 ` [kbuild-devel] " Tom Rini
2001-12-29 22:43 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-29 23:12 ` Tom Rini
2001-12-30 0:22 ` Russell King
2001-12-30 0:11 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-30 5:39 ` Rob Landley
2001-12-30 13:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-30 17:14 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-30 17:32 ` Tom Rini
2001-12-30 17:44 ` Russell King
2001-12-28 20:39 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-28 20:41 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-28 20:45 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 21:19 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-28 21:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 22:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-28 23:05 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-29 0:59 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-29 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-29 3:21 ` [kbuild-devel] " Keith Owens
2001-12-28 23:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-28 23:04 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 23:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-28 23:12 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-12-29 13:01 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-28 22:47 ` Martin Dalecki
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2001-12-28 23:25 Stewart Smith
2001-12-29 12:01 Wayne.Brown
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