linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: consolidate boot/compressed/Makefile's list of targets

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Message-ID: <4AA13C10.4040802@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:10:56 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>
CC:	mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: consolidate boot/compressed/Makefile's list of	
 targets

On 09/04/2009 01:09 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Impact: cleanup
> 
> Rather than (inconsistently) having some target specifications
> scattered around and some listed at the top of the file, list them all
> in one place. And make use of suffix-y to reduce the list's length.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>
> 

I had been meaning to get around to cleaning this up, but this is IMNSHO
completely backwards.  Distributing targets so that all the stuff that
produces a particular file is in one place is IMO a much cleaner style.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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