From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757041AbZIDQLx (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2009 12:11:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755355AbZIDQLv (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2009 12:11:51 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:46754 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753226AbZIDQLv (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Sep 2009 12:11:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4AA13C10.4040802@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:10:56 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090513 Fedora/3.0-2.3.beta2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Beulich CC: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: consolidate boot/compressed/Makefile's list of targets References: <4AA0E74C02000078000136F0@vpn.id2.novell.com> In-Reply-To: <4AA0E74C02000078000136F0@vpn.id2.novell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/04/2009 01:09 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: > Impact: cleanup > > Rather than (inconsistently) having some target specifications > scattered around and some listed at the top of the file, list them all > in one place. And make use of suffix-y to reduce the list's length. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich > I had been meaning to get around to cleaning this up, but this is IMNSHO completely backwards. Distributing targets so that all the stuff that produces a particular file is in one place is IMO a much cleaner style. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.