On Fri, 17 May 2002 Wayne.Brown@altec.com wrote:
> That wouldn't help me, because I'll never trust *any* build system --
> even good ol' "make" itself -- to make the right determination of what
> to recompile after applying one of Linus's or Alan's patch sets.
> I *always* "make mrproper" and recompile *everything* after patching.
And the new kbuild will do that faster - what the problem again? For those
of us who actually trust the makefile concept, if not the current
makefiles, the new kbuild also happens to be designed to do the right
thing after a patch.
More importantly, it makes the make system manageable again.
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