linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] kbuild - introduce vdir to make life easier for x86

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Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:22:01 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kbuild devel <kbuild-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC] kbuild - introduce vdir to make life easier for x86_64

Sam,

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 21:11 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> One of the complaints raised about the current x86_64
> Makfiles are the ugliness needed to reuse code from i386.
> Andi asked me if we could do something in kbuild to make
> this less ugly and below are the hack I could come up with.

while in general this is definitely a nice change, it does not really
solve the real problem of code scattered across two architectures. The
Makefile polishing is the least thing we care about.

Thanks,

	tglx




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