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, 2 Nov 2002 16:10:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 16:10:50 -0500 Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk ([193.162.159.95]:28421 "EHLO pasmtp.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 16:10:43 -0500 Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 22:16:57 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: dcache_rcu [performance results] Message-ID: <20021102211656.GA3759@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20021030161912.E2613@in.ibm.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20021102162419.A7894@dikhow> <20021102120155.A17591@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 07:41:34PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >Kernel compilation actually uses absolute pathnames e.g. for dependency > >checking. > > This used to be true, but it shouldn't be true any more. TOPDIR should > be gone, and everything should be relative paths (and all "make" > invocations should just be done from the top kernel directory). > > But yes, it certainly _used_ to be true (and hey, maybe I've missed some > reason for why it isn't still true). If there is any dependency left on absolute paths thats a bug. I have tested this by doing a full make and copy the tree. When executing make again nothing got rebuild - so it is OK for the general case. But please report it if you see something in contradiction with that. Sam