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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: alistair@devzero.co.uk, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:31:39 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081024.153139.36591021.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810240801540.3287@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:17:53 -0700 (PDT)

> Now, _another_ part (and arguably the really core reason) of this problem 
> is that our Makefile rules for the asm include directory is weak and 
> unreliable in the presense of already-existing unexpected entries.

I guess we could use seperate "stamp" files to deal with this.

Along with the generated file "foo" there is a "foo.stamp" file
that is generated with "touch" after "foo" is built.

Then "foo"'s update rule is whether the "foo.stamp" is out of date
wrt. it's dependencies.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-24 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-24  4:10 Linus Torvalds
2008-10-24  4:14 ` Roland Dreier
2008-10-24 18:08   ` Greg KH
2008-10-24 11:24 ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-10-24 11:45   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-24 12:52     ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-10-24 13:13       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-24 14:56         ` git-clean [Was: Linux 2.6.28-rc1] Björn Steinbrink
2008-10-24 15:17       ` Linux 2.6.28-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2008-10-24 19:22         ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-10-24 22:31         ` David Miller [this message]
2008-10-24 22:51           ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-10-24 19:15   ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-10-24 23:44     ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-10-24 17:09 ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-24 17:54   ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-24 17:57     ` Randy Dunlap
2008-10-24 18:05       ` Fenghua Yu
2008-10-24 18:11         ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-24 22:28 ` nf_conntrack oopes on parisc/smp (was Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1) Domenico Andreoli
2008-10-24 22:53 ` Linux 2.6.28-rc1 Tony Vroon
2008-10-24 23:01   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-26 13:17     ` Tony Vroon
2008-10-30 14:26 ` 2.6.28-rc1: NVRAM being corrupted on ppc64 preventing boot (bisected) Mel Gorman
2008-10-30 20:52   ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-30 21:05     ` Josh Boyer
2008-10-30 21:35       ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-10-31 10:36     ` Mel Gorman
2008-10-31 11:10       ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-31 11:31         ` Mel Gorman
2008-10-31 18:36         ` Mel Gorman
2008-10-31 11:18       ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-31 11:31         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-31 11:56           ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-31 11:32         ` Mel Gorman
2008-10-24 18:10 Linux 2.6.28-rc1 Rufus & Azrael

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