Re: Ideas for v2.1

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@smurf.noris.de)
Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:16:17 +0100

In linux.dev.kernel, article <Pine.OSF.3.92a.960610201545.22333A-100000=
@saul6.u.washington.edu>,
David Flood <dcflood@u.washington.edu> writes:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:
>=20
> [snip]
>=20
> > o 'qdep' replacing the normal 'dep'
>=20
> and/or an option to use something other than (g)awk for make dep. On=
a
> machine without a hardware FPU, the dep stage takes WAYYYYYYY too lon=
g.
>=20
and/or some way to get the old 'dep' back. makedepend might be slow and
ugly, but at least it doesn't need to touch .h files, which doesn't wor=
k
when you're trying to build your kernel by symlinking the whole source =
tree
off a CD-ROM ("cp --rec --sym /cd/usr/src/linux-2.0.0 /usr/src/" -- t=
hat
_would_ work splendidly...).

> Re-write 'update' (or eliminate it alltogether) so that it can be APM=
aware for
> laptops. (I realize that this is ix86 specific).
>=20
All update does is a sleep(5)/bdflush() cycle. That should be _really_ =
easy
to put in a kernel thread instead.

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