Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | | Subject | Re: KBuild 2.5 Impressions | | Date | Fri, 31 May 2002 03:24:00 +0200 |
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On Friday 31 May 2002 03:20, Skip Ford wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Friday 31 May 2002 02:13, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 01:19, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > > > > > > I think that with these breakups done the thing would be sufficiently > > > > digestible to satisfy Linus. Now that I think of it, Linus's request > > > > > > Maybe I'm the idiot here but what dose this gain you?? > > > > > > The reason to break up a patch is not simply to get more of them. There > > > is no point in splitting if you still need to use every single one of > > > them to make anything work. > > > > See above. It's all about analyzing the structure of the patch. To be > > fair though, it took me less than an hour to get a pretty good idea of > > how the current patch set is structured. > > I could be wrong but I think Linus wants small patches that slowly > convert kbuild24 to kbuild25, and not just a chopped up wholesale > kbuild25.
I hope you're wrong, because that does not sound reasonable. On the other hand, the two build systems coexist quite happily in the same tree. You have to explicitly do the -f Makefile-2.5 for the new build system to kick in. So nobody is being asked to make any sudden change, people can convert at their own convenience.
> There's a big difference between splitting kb25 into pieces and figuring > out a way to migrate from kb24 to kb25 with small patches. You're > suggesting the former while Linus wants the latter.
If that's really a correct interpretation, it would be weird. I hope it isn't.
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