Re: [RFC] kbuild - introduce vdir to make life easier for x86_64

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> The below are the minimal clean-up - a bit more could be done.
>>
>> Comments?
> 
> Looks good in principle. My only suggestion would be to name it something
> differently than vdir. I know that's what GNU make calls it, but it's still
> pretty cryptic. How about just fallback-dir ? 
> 
> Also what would be nice (I don't know if it's doable in make) would
> be a separate variable (e.g. other-obj-... := ) that contains the fallback
> names and that is double checked against the fallback directory. That
> would document it clearly what's going on. Failing that stuffing 
> them into a comment would be good at least.
> 

<nitpick>

Actually make calls it VPATH, not vdir.

	-hpa
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