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From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, sam@ravnborg.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: discussion of Kbuild fixes (kbuild: Kbuild.include avoid using spaces in call arguments)
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 03:05:41 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702080301590.14457@scrub.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070208012049.GE22699@flower.upol.cz>

Hi,

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Oleg Verych wrote:

> -- `find | sort' in localversion (i insist on split between paths and
>     files)

make has dedicated functions for this.

> -- symlinks to /dev/null in option checking -- isn't it better to not
>    have any (though cached) access to files on filesystem, instead of to
>    /dev/null? cont.:

symlinks are not much else than special files.

> I wish to have more people to work on this (even with just comments),
> because "Kbuild.include" was only first step to reduce bloated top
> Makefile. Since then, it seems, Sam have more important things to do.

The problem is that you mix multiple changes into a single patch, but 
since kbuild is very central part that puts everything together, I don't 
think it's bad idea to be more conservative, especially if you just start 
to work on it.

bye, Roman

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-08  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-07 16:52 -mcpu strikes back Alexey Dobriyan
2007-02-07 17:47 ` Roman Zippel
2007-02-07 22:04   ` [patch, fix build regression] kbuild: Kbuild.include avoid using spaces in call arguments Oleg Verych
2007-02-07 23:34     ` Roman Zippel
2007-02-07 23:38       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-02-08  0:00         ` Roman Zippel
2007-02-08  1:20           ` discussion of Kbuild fixes (kbuild: Kbuild.include avoid using spaces in call arguments) Oleg Verych
2007-02-08  2:05             ` Roman Zippel [this message]
2007-02-08  2:59               ` Oleg Verych
2007-02-07 23:52       ` [patch, fix build regression] kbuild: Kbuild.include avoid using spaces in call arguments Linus Torvalds
2007-02-08  0:03         ` Roman Zippel
2007-02-08  4:30         ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-08  5:24           ` dd Oleg Verych
2007-02-08  5:19             ` dd Andrew Morton
2007-02-08  5:58               ` + search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch Oleg Verych
2007-02-08  5:58                 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-02-08  6:43                   ` Oleg Verych
2007-02-08  6:42                     ` Mike Frysinger
2007-02-08 11:29                     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-08 16:38                 ` Roman Zippel
2007-02-08 18:39                   ` Oleg Verych
2007-02-08  5:56             ` dd Mike Frysinger
2007-02-08  7:42               ` search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch Oleg Verych
2007-02-08  7:40                 ` search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch Mike Frysinger
2007-02-08  8:04                   ` search-a-little-harder-for-mkimage.patch Oleg Verych
2007-02-08  5:39           ` + make-mkcompile_h-use-lang=c-and-lc_all=c-for-cc-v.patch Oleg Verych
2007-02-08 16:34           ` [patch, fix build regression] kbuild: Kbuild.include avoid using spaces in call arguments Roman Zippel
     [not found]           ` <20070208064029.GO22699@flower.upol.cz>
     [not found]             ` <20070207224227.a23ca154.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-23  0:02               ` .mailmap in top directory Oleg Verych
2007-02-08 15:48         ` [patch, fix build regression] kbuild: Kbuild.include avoid using spaces in call arguments Sam Ravnborg

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