Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Jari Ruusu wrote:

> > So you seems to be bitten by a distributor starting to use a new
> > facility in kbuild.
> 
> SUSE folks made a silly mistake and broke stuff. It was even more silly for
> them to try to submit that breakage to mainline.

Letting the symlink point to the build directory is the only sane option. 
What's missing is that the native kernel tree itself should generate a 
small Makefile in the build directory.
SuSE did the right thing, it now just needs proper integration.

bye, Roman
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