Re: kbuild news

[Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>]

> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 13:11:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>

>    From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
>    Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:42:40 -0400
>    
>    Let's face it, both btfixup and kallsyms "want" to be the last,
>    so something has to give.
> 
> No, btfixup does not care about anything that will go into
> kallsyms.o, no BTFIXUP objects may appear in kallsyms.
> 
> So btfixup may be next to last just fine.

This is very unfortunate, because it invalidates the workaround
where I moved btfixup to "make image" stage. Unles Kai is willing
to change the way the dependencies are handled, I'm stuck.
I am talking about breaking up this:

$(sort $(vmlinux-objs)): $(SUBDIRS) ;

To make every single object (including head.o) on every other
subdirectory (even benign ones) seems a little fishy.

-- Pete