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On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 03:44:10PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > What Mr. Fishtank seems to overlook is that kbuild 2.5 is far more > flexible and accurate than 2.4, including features that lots of people > want, like separate source and object trees. I don't see the masses, or, well, anybody on lkml, clamoring for this. IIRC from the kernel summit SGI was the only entity clamoring for this. > Now that the overall> kbuild design is correct, the core code can be rewritten for speed. > And that will be done a couple of weeks after kbuild 2.5 goes into the > kernel, then I expect kbuild 2.5 to be faster than kbuild 2.4 even on > full builds. Ok... you want kbuild into 2.5 ASAP, only to submit a rewrite two weeks later? If so it makes even less sense to get kbuild into 2.5.x now. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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