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From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:37:28 +0900
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] kbuild: create a build directory automatically
	for out-of-tree build
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Hi Tom,


On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:20:33 -0400
Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 05:41:47PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > +Tom
> > 
> > On 23 March 2014 22:55, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Prior to Kbuild, the build system created a build directory,
> > > when it did not exist, for out-of-tree build.
> > >
> > > This feature was dropped when we switched to Kbuild
> > > because many of lines in makefiles were copied from Linux Kernel.
> > > (In Linux Kernel, we have to create a build directory by ourselves
> > > before starting build.)
> > >
> > > That feature seems worth reviving for less typing
> > > even if our code and Linux Kernel diverge.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
> > > Suggested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> > >
> > 
> > Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> > Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> > 
> > Arguably could be a bug-fix for this release.
> 
> Yeah, I like this and will pick it up.  The only question is, has this
> idea already been rejected in the kernel?
> 

I have not sent this patch to the kernel community yet.
OK. I will.


Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada