Re: [GIT PATCHES] kbuild updates

[Alistair John Strachan]

On Monday 05 September 2005 18:41, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hi Linus.
>
> kbuild updates as accumulated over the last few months.
> All patches has been in -mm in one or several versions.
>
> Most noteworthy:
> 1) -Wundef added to CFLAGS. This is the cause of several new warnings,
>    which for the most part has been fixed for now.
> 2) "PREEMPT" in UTS_VERSION. So we complain when dealing
>    with modules compiled for a wrong kernel

How is this different from the preempt module vermagic?

~$ modinfo agpgart | grep vermagic
vermagic:       2.6.13 preempt gcc-4.0

> 3) Introduced Kbuild.include (the cause of most of
>    the changes lines in top-level Makefile).
>    It killed a lot of duplicate code
> 4) Introduce debug_kallsyms to better debug situations where
>    kallsyms fails the consistency check
> 5) Added support for building rpm tarballs of source
>
> Some of this was leftovers from my old bitkeeper tree, and authorship
> is not correct due to wron cogito usage. The changelog message though
> attributes the correct author.
>
> Please pull from:
> www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild.git
>
> 	Sam
[snipped diffstat]

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/