Re: New kbuild filename: Kbuild

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:00:20PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> kbuild: Prefer Kbuild as name of the kbuild files
>    
> The kbuild syntax is unique and does only have very few things in common with
> usual Makefile syntax. So to avoid confusion make the filename 'Kbuild' be
> the preferred name as replacement for 'Makefile'.
> No global renaming planned to take place for now, but new stuff expected to use
> the new 'Kbuild' filename.

Disagree.  These are just makefiles, and renaming for the sake of it
doesn't buy us.  If you really want to improve things implement something like

 module foo.ko
 sources foo.c blah.c
 sources foobar.c if FOO_BAR

in Kconfig and get rid of driver makefiles compeltely

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