From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754847Ab0I2Ruf (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:50:35 -0400 Received: from pfepa.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.235]:44383 "EHLO pfepa.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752586Ab0I2Rud (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:50:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:50:31 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Michal Marek Cc: matt mooney , Randy Dunlap , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kbuild: correct variable definitions in makefiles.txt Message-ID: <20100929175031.GA9278@merkur.ravnborg.org> References: <1284964412-32211-1-git-send-email-mfm@muteddisk.com> <4CA35541.9090106@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CA35541.9090106@suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 05:03:29PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote: > On 20.9.2010 08:33, matt mooney wrote: > > Change $(src) and $(obj) definitions to state the path as absolute and > > not relative. > > It _is_ a relative patch, AFAICS. What makes you think otherwise? With extenal modules $(src) and $(obj) are absolute - but in nomal use they are relative. And again in normal use they are also equal. I usually say that we have two just to document what is srource and what is generated. Sam