Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:51:21 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1 |
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On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 03:31:39PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:17:53 -0700 (PDT) > > > Now, _another_ part (and arguably the really core reason) of this problem > > is that our Makefile rules for the asm include directory is weak and > > unreliable in the presense of already-existing unexpected entries. > > I guess we could use seperate "stamp" files to deal with this. > > Along with the generated file "foo" there is a "foo.stamp" file > that is generated with "touch" after "foo" is built.
I remember I made an attempt doing so long time ago for the asm symlink. But why it failed for me I dunno.
We used this trick in many archs before but as part of the header move to arch/$ARCH we have killed almost all uses of symlink to reach certain files.
The asm symlink is only used by asm-offsett.h for most archs these days and when I get around to it I will fix that too so we can kill it entirely.
But first we need to move all archs headers to arch/$ARCH. And we are getting there.
Sam
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