Re: [PATCH] Do not rebuild full kernel tree again and again...

Nick Piggin
2006-03-13T10:47:14Z

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 05:10:31PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>>
>>
>>>This issue has been discussed with Paul D. Smith which also provided
>>>a patch similar to yours.
>>>The patch is in the kbuild queue for 2.6.17.
>>>But we also agreed to postpose this change in make until next stable
>>>release. So if you update your make to latest CVS version you will no
>>>longer see this misbehaviour.
>>>And when 2.6.17 opens up kbuild will be 'fixed' in mainline kernel.
>>>
>>
>>So what's going to be done about 2.6.16?
>>
>>I'm seeing this behaviour too in -rc6 and it is a bad regression
>>for a developer. I assume there will be some workaround?
>
> I assume debian soon will update make to current version from CVS that
> has this behaviour removed.
>

So long as it just requires a tools update then that's fine for me.
Thanks.

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