Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 02 Jun 2002 19:49:47 -0700 | From | Dan Kegel <> | Subject | Re: KBuild 2.5 Impressions |
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Daniel Phillips wrote: > Well, actually a lot of the work done by Kai is simply importing > portions of Keith's work that break out easily, which is purely > duplication of effort, since such work is already in progress. In > fact it creates more work, because then we have to go parse Kai's > patches and find out what he submitted, then see if it gets applied > so we can mark it 'applied' in the list. This is a real waste of > time, and did I mention, it's divisive?
Linus sees Kai as being the most promising fellow to integrate kbuild2.5 right now (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=102307114005894&w=2 ) and Kai is willing to take it on in just the way Linus wants. It's probably worth giving Kai and Linus the benefit of the doubt for a while, even if it does mean having to rejigger the kbuild-2.5 patch each time Linux accepts one of Kai's patches.
I personally am anxious to see kbuild-2.5 make it into the kernel, but I also feel it can only benefit from a strong review of the sort that comes about during gradual evolution of the kernel build process towards the techniques used by kbuild-2.5.
Thanks to everyone, Keith, Daniel, Thunder, and Kai, who are working (together or not!) on moving the kernel build process into the modern era. - Dan - 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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