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On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 10:07 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> We shave too much from kernel sources for making it work
> for on device external kernel module development that cross
> development of external modules wont work from same tree
> anymore. This patch makes a copy of tree which will eventually
> be staged for building external modules

Why does cross development require more of the kernel tree than
on-device compilation?

p.