From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964876AbXIJTWv (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:22:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759419AbXIJTWH (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:22:07 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:57532 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758952AbXIJTWG (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:22:06 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] kbuild - introduce vdir to make life easier for x86_64 From: Thomas Gleixner To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Andi Kleen , LKML , kbuild devel , Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: <20070910191138.GA31541@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20070910191138.GA31541@uranus.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:22:01 +0200 Message-Id: <1189452121.25767.42.camel@chaos> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 (2.10.1-4.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sam, On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 21:11 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > One of the complaints raised about the current x86_64 > Makfiles are the ugliness needed to reuse code from i386. > Andi asked me if we could do something in kbuild to make > this less ugly and below are the hack I could come up with. while in general this is definitely a nice change, it does not really solve the real problem of code scattered across two architectures. The Makefile polishing is the least thing we care about. Thanks, tglx