Re: discussion of Kbuild fixes (kbuild: Kbuild.include avoid using spaces in call arguments)

Roman Zippel
2007-02-08T02:05:57Z

Hi,

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Oleg Verych wrote:

> -- `find | sort' in localversion (i insist on split between paths and
> files)

make has dedicated functions for this.

> -- symlinks to /dev/null in option checking -- isn't it better to not
> have any (though cached) access to files on filesystem, instead of to
> /dev/null? cont.:

symlinks are not much else than special files.

> I wish to have more people to work on this (even with just comments),
> because "Kbuild.include" was only first step to reduce bloated top
> Makefile. Since then, it seems, Sam have more important things to do.

The problem is that you mix multiple changes into a single patch, but
since kbuild is very central part that puts everything together, I don't
think it's bad idea to be more conservative, especially if you just start
to work on it.

bye, Roman