Re: KBUILD tries to make initramfs contents :-)

[H. Peter Anvin]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Should it stay this way or is it a bug?
> Oh Crap. It's a bug. The intent it to rebuild initramfs when content of
> the initramfs changes.
> But not to rebuild content of initramfs of course.

No, it's worse than that.

The intent very much IS to rebuilt the content of initramfs, when it's 
included in the tree.

> No solution right now - will take a look during the weekend.

I guess the dependency-generation machinery will need to distinguish 
between in-tree and out-of-tree files.  It should be relatively easy, 
since out-of-tree files will have paths that begin with "/" or "../".

	-hpa

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/