[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 18 of 20] ipath - kbuild infrastructure

Sam Ravnborg sam at ravnborg.org
Thu Mar 9 13:15:02 PST 2006


On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:00:07AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Sam> Eventually - yes.  But not just now. Kbuild was introduced
>     Sam> because it was needed in the top-level directory and it made
>     Sam> good sense to do so.  But for now keeping Makefile is a good
>     Sam> choice. This is anyway what people are used to.
> 
> OK, disregard my suggestion then.  Should we patch
> Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt to correct the current
> documentation, which says:
> 
>   The preferred name for the kbuild files is 'Kbuild' but 'Makefile'
>   will continue to be supported. All new developmen is expected to use
>   the Kbuild filename.
> 
Yes - I will do so. Thanks.

	Sam



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