linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

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Message-Id: <200710022351.48971.alistair@devzero.co.uk>
Date:	Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:51:48 +0100
From:	Alistair John Strachan <alistair@...zero.co.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 04:41:49 Linus Torvalds wrote:
[snip]
> In other words, people who know they may be affected and would want to
> prepare can look at (for example)
>
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86.git x86
>
> and generally get ready for the switch-over.

This is certainly a tool issue, but if I use Debian's kernel-image "make-kpkg" 
wrapper around the kernel build system, it fails with:

cp: cannot stat `arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage': No such file or directory

Obviously, this file has moved to arch/x86/boot, but it seems like possibly 
unnecessary breakage. I've been copying bzImage for years from 
arch/x86_64/boot, and I'm sure there's a handful of scripts (other than 
Debian's kernel-image) doing this too.

For now, I hacked the tool[1]. Maybe, if we care, a symlink could be set up 
between arch/x86/boot and arch/$ARCH/boot ? Or would papering over this be 
more trouble than it's worth?

[1] http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/kernel-package-changes.diff

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

137/1 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, UK.

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