Re: [PATCH 18 of 20] ipath - kbuild infrastructure

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Thu Mar 09 2006 - 13:54:35 EST


On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:53:04AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > + depends on 64BIT && (PCIEPORTBUS || X86_HT)
>

> > --- /dev/null Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 +0000
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/Makefile Thu Mar 9 08:46:47 2006 -0800
>
> I've been suggesting that new files be called "Kbuild", since Sam has
> deprecated the "Makefile" name.
Eventually - yes.
But not just now. Kbuild was introduced because it was needed in the
top-level directory and it made good sense to do so.
But for now keeping Makefile is a good choice. This is anyway what
people are used to.

Sam
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