Re: Any arch specific changes to scripts directory?

From: M. R. Brown (mrbrown@0xd6.org)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2001 - 12:18:35 EST


* Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> on Thu, Dec 13, 2001:

> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:59:43 -0600,
> "M. R. Brown" <mrbrown@0xd6.org> wrote:
> >On an somewhat-related subject, here are a couple of utility scripts that
> >make it easier to use drop-in trees with various stock kernels. These are
> >used by linux-mips, linuxconsole (Ruby), and linuxsh developers, so it's
> >assumed they'd be useful to anyone else who needs to build those kernels.
>
> This facility and more is built into kbuild 2.5, which is going into
> 2.5 soon. I don't see the point in adding this to 2.4 now, especially
> since kbuild 2.5 can also run on 2.4 kernels.
>

True, but IMO the majority of people aren't using kbuild with 2.4 yet.
Plus the fact that kbuild isn't included in 2.4 - I'm thinking of the
newbie/more-than-casual user who just wants to a) grab vanilla, b) run the
provided treelink scripts to drop in their second kernel. Patching the
kernel with kbuild 2.5 would be a bit too intrusive for this.

Marcelo, can these scripts go into 2.4?

M. R.





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