From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 10:36:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 10:36:44 -0400 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:5874 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 10:36:32 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3 01/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: <4736.997579282@ocs3.ocs-net> In-Reply-To: <4736.997579282@ocs3.ocs-net> To: Keith Owens Cc: Tom Rini , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Announce: Kernel Build for 2.5, Release 1.1 is available. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 15:36:13 +0100 Message-ID: <21485.997626973@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org kaos@ocs.com.au said: > The alternative of having code in some arch directory updating > include/asm-$(ARCH)/offsets.h is worse. It is a terrible design to > have code in one makefile updating files in another directory. It is > a layer violation which is always a bad idea. With sensible (i.e. non-recursive) makefiles, surely this is far more acceptable? -- dwmw2