From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267359AbUHSURp (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:17:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267361AbUHSURp (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:17:45 -0400 Received: from [12.177.129.25] ([12.177.129.25]:16580 "EHLO ccure.user-mode-linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267359AbUHSURo (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:17:44 -0400 Message-Id: <200408192119.i7JLJNdW004190@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.1-RC1 To: Sam Ravnborg cc: Chris Wedgwood , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.8.1-mm2 --- UML build fixes In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:55:06 +0200." <20040819205506.GA7440@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <20040819014204.2d412e9b.akpm@osdl.org> <20040819122915.GA2085@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040819205506.GA7440@mars.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:19:23 -0400 From: Jeff Dike Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org sam@ravnborg.org said: > What makes um so speciel that it cannot handle .lds files in arch/um/ > kernel like all other architectures? That would allow um to utilise > the kbuild infrastructure, and no need for duplication. Beats me, as the comment says, I could not get the kbuild .lds.S : .lds rule to fire for uml.lds.S. make kept sending it to the asm .S.o rule. > Code located in arch/um/ is an error. No code should stay there. OK, that's easily fixed. > In general they seems too complicated for the task solved - but it may > be needed. Yeah, they are. They desperately need a reaming. Jeff