Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 03:31:39PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:17:53 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> > Now, _another_ part (and arguably the really core reason) of this problem 
> > is that our Makefile rules for the asm include directory is weak and 
> > unreliable in the presense of already-existing unexpected entries.
> 
> I guess we could use seperate "stamp" files to deal with this.
> 
> Along with the generated file "foo" there is a "foo.stamp" file
> that is generated with "touch" after "foo" is built.

I remember I made an attempt doing so long time ago for
the asm symlink. But why it failed for me I dunno.

We used this trick in many archs before
but as part of the header move to arch/$ARCH we have killed
almost all uses of symlink to reach certain files.

The asm symlink is only used by asm-offsett.h for most archs these
days and when I get around to it I will fix that too so we
can kill it entirely.

But first we need to move all archs headers to arch/$ARCH.
And we are getting there.

	Sam