From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 14:35:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 14:35:37 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:19206 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 14:35:36 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: dcache_rcu [performance results] Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 19:41:34 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Transmeta Corporation Message-ID: References: <20021030161912.E2613@in.ibm.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20021102162419.A7894@dikhow> <20021102120155.A17591@wotan.suse.de> X-Trace: palladium.transmeta.com 1036266119 25776 127.0.0.1 (2 Nov 2002 19:41:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@transmeta.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Nov 2002 19:41:59 GMT Cache-Post-Path: palladium.transmeta.com!unknown@penguin.transmeta.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <20021102120155.A17591@wotan.suse.de>, Andi Kleen wrote: > >Kernel compilation actually uses absolute pathnames e.g. for dependency >checking. This used to be true, but it shouldn't be true any more. TOPDIR should be gone, and everything should be relative paths (and all "make" invocations should just be done from the top kernel directory). But yes, it certainly _used_ to be true (and hey, maybe I've missed some reason for why it isn't still true). Linus