From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751337AbWCITAR (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:00:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751338AbWCITAR (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:00:17 -0500 Received: from test-iport-1.cisco.com ([171.71.176.117]:63817 "EHLO test-iport-1.cisco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751337AbWCITAL (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:00:11 -0500 To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: "Bryan O'Sullivan" , rolandd@cisco.com, gregkh@suse.de, akpm@osdl.org, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 18 of 20] ipath - kbuild infrastructure X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information References: <20060309185604.GA24004@mars.ravnborg.org> From: Roland Dreier Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:00:07 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20060309185604.GA24004@mars.ravnborg.org> (Sam Ravnborg's message of "Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:56:04 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.18 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Mar 2006 19:00:10.0847 (UTC) FILETIME=[B0A156F0:01C643AB] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sam> Eventually - yes. But not just now. Kbuild was introduced Sam> because it was needed in the top-level directory and it made Sam> good sense to do so. But for now keeping Makefile is a good Sam> choice. This is anyway what people are used to. OK, disregard my suggestion then. Should we patch Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt to correct the current documentation, which says: The preferred name for the kbuild files is 'Kbuild' but 'Makefile' will continue to be supported. All new developmen is expected to use the Kbuild filename. - R.