Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Dec 2017 20:50:59 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] kbuild,kconfig: generate lexer/parser C files instead of copying _shipped files |
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Hi Masahiro.
> > In Linux build system convention, pre-generated files are version- > > controlled with a "_shipped" suffix. During the kernel building, > > they are simply shipped (copied) removing the suffix. > > > > From users' point of view, this approach can reduce external tool > > dependency for the kernel build, > > > > From developers point of view, it is tedious to manually regenerate > > such artifacts. In fact, we see several patches to regenerate > > _shipped files. They are noise commits. ...
Nice cleanup we should have does years ago. When we introduced this we did this to minimize the time it took to configure a clean kernel - as one of the reasons. Since then the average computer has been significantly faster so the time to run flex/bison is not an issue anymore.
Sam
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