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From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@quark.didntduck.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>,
	Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update fs Makefiles
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 17:55:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EC952E9.9080201@quark.didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030519170226.GB983@mars.ravnborg.org>

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 08:51:09PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> 
>>Convert foo-objs to newer-style foo-y.
> 
> 
> The paths looks correct.
> But do we really want to go that far, and deprecate the -objs syntax?
> 
> 
>>-adfs-objs := dir.o dir_f.o dir_fplus.o file.o inode.o map.o super.o
>>+adfs-y := dir.o dir_f.o dir_fplus.o file.o inode.o map.o super.o
> 
> 
> The patch contains a lot of changes like the above - and they
> are only relevant if we deprecate the -objs syntax.
> 
> Opinions anyone?
> 
> 	Sam
> 

Why have two methods of doing the same thing?  foo-y is clearly the 
preferred method because it is easy to work with conditionals.

--
				Brian Gerst


  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-19 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-19  0:51 Brian Gerst
2003-05-19 17:02 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-05-19 21:55   ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2003-05-20 14:47     ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-05-20 15:14       ` mikpe
2003-05-20 16:41         ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-05-20 22:54           ` Brian Gerst
2003-05-20 15:33       ` Roman Zippel
2003-05-20 16:38         ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-05-20 18:34       ` Sam Ravnborg

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