linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] move link of vmlinux from Makefile to a script

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Message-Id: <483157EE.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 May 2008 09:35:26 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	"linux-kbuild" <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] move link of vmlinux from Makefile to a script

>Does it fix anything or is it just a clean-up?
>I see it as a cleanup only and thus not -rc material.

It's just an inconvenience it fixes in .25.x (unless you pushed your init.o
exclusion patch to -stable already), and perhaps more a theoretical issue
in .26, but anyway (and irrespective of that for consistency I'd think it
should be done the same way in .25.x and .26).

Jan

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