Re: [PATCH 9/12] kbuild: mips use generic asm-offsets.h support

From: Roman Zippel
Date: Sat Sep 10 2005 - 15:26:52 EST


Hi,

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> > > Kbuild | 9 ++++++++-
> >
> > What's that file good for?
>
> kbuild looks for the Kbuild file before it looks for Makefile.
> In a desire to move some of the functionality away form the top-level
> Makefile and in to a kbuild file this is needed.

Why don't you put it into scripts/Makefile...?

> The Kbuild file in the top-level directory will take
> over more and more functionality from the top-level
> Makefile to the extent that I hope to end up with two
> readable files.

If the top-level Makefile gets to big, we can move things into scripts/,
that's really no reason to start using Kbuild, in the end it's still a
Makefile and I'd prefer to call it like that.

bye, Roman
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