linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] samples: build fix

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Message-Id: <20080214120920.e3eab2d9.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:09:20 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] samples: build fix

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:02:57 -0800 (PST) Roland McGrath wrote:

> I don't have any axe to grind here, I just could not figure out how to get
> the samples/ modules built (without resorting to make M=.../samples/foo and
> clobbering my source directory).  If there is another plan, point me to its
> documentation.  I can't see the point of the Kconfig option for samples at all.
> What does it do?
> 
> Because they are only ever modules, the samples are never built in.  I
> honestly don't see why the modules shouldn't be installed like any others.
> People who are really going to install the kernel for production are not
> going to set this Kconfig option.

There used to be a make target called "samples_check" (I could have
misspelled it).  Where did it go?  Sam?

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~Randy
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