From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
To: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>
Cc: trivial@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Allow aic7xx firmware to be built from BK tree.
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 21:38:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200205210338.g4L3cn947655@aslan.scsiguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 May 2002 11:19:36 +1000." <15593.41128.652928.573561@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>
>
>This patch removes the two generate files (that are also in the
>distributed kernel) before attempting to regenerate them.
Why is this necessary?
>The real question is, why are there generated files distributed with
>the kernel source?
Because, as I found out when I first contributed this driver,
not everyone has the tools necessary to build the assembler required
to generate these files.
--
Justin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-21 3:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-21 1:19 Peter Chubb
2002-05-21 3:38 ` Justin T. Gibbs [this message]
2002-05-21 4:48 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-05-21 5:07 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2002-05-21 5:20 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-05-21 8:57 ` Peter Chubb
[not found] <mailman.1021944350.2120.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-05-21 4:54 ` Pete Zaitcev
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