From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 7 May 2002 00:57:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 7 May 2002 00:57:41 -0400 Received: from tolkor.sgi.com ([192.48.180.13]:21458 "EHLO tolkor.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 7 May 2002 00:57:40 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Keith Owens To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: modversion.h improvement suggestion In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 May 2002 23:03:34 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 14:55:17 +1000 Message-ID: <23154.1020747317@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 06 May 2002 23:03:34 +0200, Olaf Titz wrote: >i.e. copy the main Makefile, add a few rules to just echo the flags, >and then invoke it in the original place (since it depends on that). >We should really have a more elegant way to extract this info from the >main Makefile. > >kaos wrote >> In any case, modversions.h will disappear in kbuild 2.5. > >which leaves hope this issue will be addressed... kbuild 2.5 has full and officially maintained support for compiling code that is not yet in the main kernel tree. No more hacks to get external drivers, filesystems etc. to build.