From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161244AbWF0R7N (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:59:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161242AbWF0R7N (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:59:13 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:26603 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161244AbWF0R7L (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:59:11 -0400 Message-ID: <44A171DF.80206@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:58:55 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: Krzysztof Halasa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: KBUILD tries to make initramfs contents :-) References: <20060627175032.GB26435@mars.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20060627175032.GB26435@mars.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > Should it stay this way or is it a bug? > Oh Crap. It's a bug. The intent it to rebuild initramfs when content of > the initramfs changes. > But not to rebuild content of initramfs of course. > No, it's worse than that. The intent very much IS to rebuilt the content of initramfs, when it's included in the tree. > No solution right now - will take a look during the weekend. I guess the dependency-generation machinery will need to distinguish between in-tree and out-of-tree files. It should be relatively easy, since out-of-tree files will have paths that begin with "/" or "../". -hpa