From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030225AbVKVXAX (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:00:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030223AbVKVXAX (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:00:23 -0500 Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:1970 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030221AbVKVXAV (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:00:21 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:00:41 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20051122.150041.90521592.davem@davemloft.net> To: sam@ravnborg.org Cc: kaber@trash.net, bunk@stusta.de, evil@g-house.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] do not select NET_CLS From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20051122224914.GA17575@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <4381F2D2.5000605@trash.net> <20051122.143713.101129339.davem@davemloft.net> <20051122224914.GA17575@mars.ravnborg.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2.53 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Sam Ravnborg Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:49:14 +0100 > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 02:37:13PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > > > One thing we can do to prevent human > > mistakes, is to make the "make modules" pass do a quick "is vmlinux > > uptodate?" check, and if not print out an error message explaining the > > situation and aborting the "make modules" attempt. > > I do not quite follow you here. If the user tries to do a "make modules" without first rebuilding their kernel image, then the make will fail if the dependencies are not satisfied for the main kernel image and it is thus not up to date.