From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263297AbUJ2MBq (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:01:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263250AbUJ2MAQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:00:16 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([81.187.226.98]:45828 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263290AbUJ2L7E (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 07:59:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:59:03 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New kbuild filename: Kbuild Message-ID: <20041029115903.GC11391@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org References: <20041028185917.GA9004@mars.ravnborg.org> <20041028190020.GB9004@mars.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041028190020.GB9004@mars.ravnborg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:00:20PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > kbuild: Prefer Kbuild as name of the kbuild files > > The kbuild syntax is unique and does only have very few things in common with > usual Makefile syntax. So to avoid confusion make the filename 'Kbuild' be > the preferred name as replacement for 'Makefile'. > No global renaming planned to take place for now, but new stuff expected to use > the new 'Kbuild' filename. Disagree. These are just makefiles, and renaming for the sake of it doesn't buy us. If you really want to improve things implement something like module foo.ko sources foo.c blah.c sources foobar.c if FOO_BAR in Kconfig and get rid of driver makefiles compeltely