Re: [PATCH] Do not rebuild full kernel tree again and again...

[Nick Piggin]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> This issue has been discussed with Paul D. Smith which also provided
> a patch similar to yours.
> The patch is in the kbuild queue for 2.6.17.
> But we also agreed to postpose this change in make until next stable
> release. So if you update your make to latest CVS version you will no
> longer see this misbehaviour.
> And when 2.6.17 opens up kbuild will be 'fixed' in mainline kernel.

So what's going to be done about 2.6.16?

I'm seeing this behaviour too in -rc6 and it is a bad regression
for a developer. I assume there will be some workaround?

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