Re: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc4] kbuild: once again use Makefiles in obj tree

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:23:28AM -0500, Mark Rustad wrote:
> I believe that I have found and fixed the problem that I encountered earlier this week
> with Makefiles not being used from the objects tree as they had been in every 2.6 kernel
> I have worked with since 2.6.5. I I view this as a regression in 2.6.14-rc4. I believe
> that the following patch fixes it.

Hi Mark.
kbuild will not guarantee you way of working in all cases. Therefore no
special implementation will be accepted to try to support it for
specific files.

The changes you point out that breaks your working methodology was added
to fix broken support for external modules.

	Sam
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