Re: 2.6: xfs is rebuilt on every .config change

[Nathan Scott]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:54:10AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 12:26:46PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > - - xfs is rebuilt. This happens when there are *no* changes related to xfs 
> > alltogether. E.g. I now applied 2.6.15.1 patch and xfs got rebuilt again.
> 
> The xfs source files do:
> #include <version.h>
> To gain access to actual kernel release.
> 
> So each time you do a change to the tree that causes version.h to be
> updated the xfs source files will be recompiled.

We really don't need that in mainline - I'll clean this up shortly.

thanks.

-- 
Nathan
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