Re: [PATCH] Do not rebuild full kernel tree again and again...

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Mar 16 2006 - 14:04:12 EST


Sam Ravnborg wrote:
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 03:31:06AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
Wouldn't it be better to have an option to tell make to assume the old

behavior? I only skimmed the original thread but it didn't seem terribly complex thing to do. A LOT of people will be doing things on pre-2.6.17 kernel for quite some time and they will be cursing a lot if they have to rebuild everything everytime.


If Paul planned for a new make relase this year - then yes.
But I assume it will take another year (almost) before next make realse
after the current 3.81. And then it should not matter much.


Fair enough for me. :-)

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tejun
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