Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 28 Dec 2001 14:11:37 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: State of the new config & build system |
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On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > I'm not certain what you're objecting to, and I want to understand it. > There are rules that use architecture symbols to suppress things like > bus types. I presume that's not a problem for you, but tell me if it is.
It _is_ a problem for me, because I want to do "diffstat" on a patch from a PPC maintainer, and if I see anything non-PPC, loud ringing noises go off in my head. I want that diffstat to say _only_
arch/ppc/... include/asm-ppc/...
and nothing else. That way I know that I don't have to worry.
In contrast, if it starts talking about Documentation/Configure.help and the main config file, I start worrying.
For example, that MATHEMU thing is just ugly. It was perfectly fine in the per-architecture version, now it suddenly has magic dependencies just because different architectures call it different things, and different architectures have different rules on when it's needed.
Linus
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