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From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravenborg.org,
	kai@germaschewski.name
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not rebuild full kernel tree again and again...
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 03:31:06 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4419AEEA.50702@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060313163041.GA29719@mars.ravnborg.org>

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:47:08PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>  >>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.
> 
> I should note here that it was agreed with Paul that upcoming make
> relase will not have this change, but next release will have it.
> So 2.6.17 kbuild will take care of being forward compatible in this
> matter.
> 

Wouldn't it be better to have an option to tell make to assume the old 
behavior? I only skimmed the original thread but it didn't seem terribly 
complex thing to do. A LOT of people will be doing things on pre-2.6.17 
kernel for quite some time and they will be cursing a lot if they have 
to rebuild everything everytime.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-16 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-12 17:25 [PATCH] Do not rebuild full kernel tree again and again Petr Vandrovec
2006-03-12 17:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-13  6:10   ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-13  9:12     ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-13 10:47       ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-13 16:30         ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-16 18:31           ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2006-03-16 18:37             ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-16 19:06               ` Tejun Heo

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