From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756670AbXIWGCS (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:02:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753036AbXIWGCK (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:02:10 -0400 Received: from pasmtpb.tele.dk ([80.160.77.98]:51769 "EHLO pasmtpB.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752946AbXIWGCK (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:02:10 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:03:35 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Oleg Verych Cc: Jan Engelhardt , zippel@linux-m68k.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Unfortunate infinite make recursion Message-ID: <20070923060335.GA22208@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20070922204002.GA31873@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20070922222311.GQ24301@flower.upol.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070922222311.GQ24301@flower.upol.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Please Oleg. > > You know very well that most people will not have their kernel src RO. > > Sure, if it will be not comfortable. > > But if kbuild deals with this transparently, it must be OK. Brokenness > due to binutils, kbuild, root user bugs won't garbage source. Only thing > to ask from experienced users *and* kernel developers, is > `useradd kbuild`, everything else will not bother anybody. Better would be to fix the bugs where we today clobber the sources. Care to point out the exact cases you see. Sam