* Keith Owens on Thu, Dec 13, 2001: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:59:43 -0600, > "M. R. Brown" wrote: > >On an somewhat-related subject, here are a couple of utility scripts that > >make it easier to use drop-in trees with various stock kernels. These are > >used by linux-mips, linuxconsole (Ruby), and linuxsh developers, so it's > >assumed they'd be useful to anyone else who needs to build those kernels. > > This facility and more is built into kbuild 2.5, which is going into > 2.5 soon. I don't see the point in adding this to 2.4 now, especially > since kbuild 2.5 can also run on 2.4 kernels. > True, but IMO the majority of people aren't using kbuild with 2.4 yet. Plus the fact that kbuild isn't included in 2.4 - I'm thinking of the newbie/more-than-casual user who just wants to a) grab vanilla, b) run the provided treelink scripts to drop in their second kernel. Patching the kernel with kbuild 2.5 would be a bit too intrusive for this. Marcelo, can these scripts go into 2.4? M. R.