From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 21:24:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 21:24:21 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-038-015.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.38.15]:37086 "EHLO starship") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 21:24:20 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Skip Ford Subject: Re: KBuild 2.5 Impressions Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 03:24:00 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200205302155.g4ULtEb09500@buggy.badula.org> <20020531011600.ENOZ28280.pop018.verizon.net@pool-141-150-239-239.delv.east.verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 31 May 2002 03:20, Skip Ford wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Friday 31 May 2002 02:13, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 01:19, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > > > > > > I think that with these breakups done the thing would be sufficiently > > > > digestible to satisfy Linus. Now that I think of it, Linus's request > > > > > > Maybe I'm the idiot here but what dose this gain you?? > > > > > > The reason to break up a patch is not simply to get more of them. There > > > is no point in splitting if you still need to use every single one of > > > them to make anything work. > > > > See above. It's all about analyzing the structure of the patch. To be > > fair though, it took me less than an hour to get a pretty good idea of > > how the current patch set is structured. > > I could be wrong but I think Linus wants small patches that slowly > convert kbuild24 to kbuild25, and not just a chopped up wholesale > kbuild25. I hope you're wrong, because that does not sound reasonable. On the other hand, the two build systems coexist quite happily in the same tree. You have to explicitly do the -f Makefile-2.5 for the new build system to kick in. So nobody is being asked to make any sudden change, people can convert at their own convenience. > There's a big difference between splitting kb25 into pieces and figuring > out a way to migrate from kb24 to kb25 with small patches. You're > suggesting the former while Linus wants the latter. If that's really a correct interpretation, it would be weird. I hope it isn't. -- Daniel