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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Kernel source tree splitting
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> I'm probably misreading this...but,
> 
> Have you tried this yet?  Does it modify/customize all Kconfig
> and Makefiles for the selected tree splits?
> 
> A few days ago, in one tree, I rm-ed arch/{all that I don't need}
> and drivers/{all that I don't need}.
> After that I couldn't run "make *config" because it wants all of
> those files, even if I don't want them.
> 
> So there are many edits that needed to be done in lots of
> Kconfig and Makefiles if one selectively pulls or omits certain
> sub-directories.

Indeed, I ran across the same thing a while back. Would be *really* nice to
fix, if only so some poor sod over a modem can download a smaller tarball,
or save some diskspace.

M.