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

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 05:10:31PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 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?
I assume debian soon will update make to current version from CVS that
has this behaviour removed.

	Sam
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