Hi!
> > : I've long believed that one big-ass Makefile was needed for the kernel
> >
> > Count my vote for this as well. I know both ways have their drawbacks,
> > but the limiting factor in how far you can scale things in parallel
> > rather quickly becomes make itself. If everything is in one makefile,
> > it tends to work a lot better.
>
> Not to mention that make -j can do its thing properly...
>
> Call me a slacker, but I only managed to get drivers/scsi done last night
> before going to sleep. The good news is that it went from 671 lines to
> 140 using the list trick (and some rationalisation and dead code
> removal).
Be sure to feed it to linus in small pieces. In one-per-directory
speed, he is likely to accept such patches (he already did for
drivers/usb)...
Pavel
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