Re: PATCH 2.4.4.3: 3rdparty driver support for kbuild

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>]

Keith Owens wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 05:25:24 -0400,
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
> >The attached patch, against kernel 2.4.4-pre3, adds a feature I call
> >"3rd-party support."
> 
> Already covered by my 2.5 makefile rewrite[1] which has explicit
> support for third party kernel source.  Shadow trees are designed
> specifically to handle this problem.  I don't see the point of adding a
> script which will only be used in 2.4, especially when the vendors
> would have to change their tarball format for 2.5 formats.
> 
> (3) The kernel is constructed from multiple source trees and built in a
>     separate object tree.

I don't see how multiple source trees can be merged automatically with
100% accuracy.  

What happens when you build with linus-tree, xfs-tree, and
reiserfs-tree, and both XFS and reiserfs touch struct file_operations,
in conflicting ways?  It takes human intervention to figure that stuff
out and resolve such conflicts.

If you support multiple source trees -> single build tree, it sounds
like are you trying to integrate cvs/diff/similar into the kernel build
system, which is whacky...

	Jeff



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