Re: [PATCH] [2/3] KBUILD: Add a symlink to the source for separate objdirs

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Wed Jan 07 2009 - 15:27:42 EST


On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:21:42AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> I have some scripts which need to map back to the source directory
> from an objdir. This was so far done by parsing the Makefile,
> but the Makefile format changes occasionally and breaks my scripts
> then.
>
> To make this more reliable add a "source" symlink back.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Like we do when we install modules. Agreed this is usefull.
Applied.

Sam
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