From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Announce: Kernel Build for 2.5, Release 1.1 is available.
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 00:48:14 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3742.997627694@ocs3.ocs-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Aug 2001 15:36:13 +0100." <21485.997626973@redhat.com>
On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 15:36:13 +0100,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>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?
No. The aim is for a user to look at the makefile in a directory and
know everything that is created in that directory. If you allow
creation of a file in one directory but storing it in another then you
have to search all makefiles to find out what is created in any
directory. Horrible!
I was very careful to code the select() and objlink() and related
commands so they can only create files in the current directory, to
enforce a clean design. You can read a file from another directory but
you cannot write a file to another directory.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-12 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-11 15:03 Announce: Kernel Build for 2.5, Release 1.1 is available Keith Owens
2001-08-11 15:20 ` Russell King
2001-08-11 16:03 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-11 16:08 ` Philip Blundell
2001-08-11 16:14 ` Russell King
2001-08-11 21:35 ` [kbuild-devel] " Tom Rini
2001-08-11 21:55 ` Roman Zippel
2001-08-12 1:17 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-11 22:02 ` [kbuild-devel] " Tom Rini
2001-08-12 1:21 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-12 1:44 ` Tom Rini
2001-08-12 14:36 ` David Woodhouse
2001-08-12 14:48 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2001-08-12 14:56 ` David Woodhouse
2001-08-12 14:56 ` Russell King
2001-08-13 2:23 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-12 2:24 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-12 4:30 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-19 7:13 ` Richard Henderson
[not found] <20010811212051.A819@jaquet.dk>
2001-08-12 2:11 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-12 2:27 ` Tom Rini
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2001-08-12 7:31 [kbuild-devel] " Rasmus Andersen
2001-08-12 7:44 ` Keith Owens
2001-08-12 7:57 ` Daniel T. Chen
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