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

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Thu Mar 09 2006 - 16:13:04 EST


On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:00:07AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Sam> Eventually - yes. But not just now. Kbuild was introduced
> Sam> because it was needed in the top-level directory and it made
> Sam> good sense to do so. But for now keeping Makefile is a good
> Sam> choice. This is anyway what people are used to.
>
> OK, disregard my suggestion then. Should we patch
> Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt to correct the current
> documentation, which says:
>
> The preferred name for the kbuild files is 'Kbuild' but 'Makefile'
> will continue to be supported. All new developmen is expected to use
> the Kbuild filename.
>
Yes - I will do so. Thanks.

Sam
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