Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: Improved external module support

[Arjan van de Ven]

> #   3) The build symlink now points to the output of the kernel
> #      compile.
> #      - When a kernel is compiled with output and source
> #        mixed, the build and source symlinks will point
> #        to the same directory. In this case there is
> #        no change in behaviour.

> #   It is recommended that distributions pick up this
> #   method, and especially start shipping kernel output and
> #   source separately.
> #   

I don't see the point of this; module builds don't use the output of the
kernel compile but the SOURCE, eg the headers and Makefiles.

I don't see a reason for this change; at least what I ship right now for
the Fedora Core 2 kernel seems to work for all modules with sane
makefiles so far....

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