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Message-ID: <20100929231904.GB21930@haskell.muteddisk.com>
Date:	Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:19:04 -0700
From:	matt mooney <mfm@...eddisk.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kbuild: correct variable definitions in
 makefiles.txt

On 19:50 Wed 29 Sep     , Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 05:03:29PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> > On 20.9.2010 08:33, matt mooney wrote:
> > > Change $(src) and $(obj) definitions to state the path as absolute and
> > > not relative.
> > 
> > It _is_ a relative patch, AFAICS. What makes you think otherwise?
> 
> With extenal modules $(src) and $(obj) are absolute - but in nomal use they are relative.
> And again in normal use they are also equal. I usually say that we have two just to document
> what is srource and what is generated.

Ah, I see. Sorry, I should have looked into this more. Now you did say in normal
use they are equal, but I thought they were also equal when used for an external
module too. Am I missing something?

Thanks,
mfm
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