On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 07:11:01 -0500 (CDT),
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
> >So, when a vendor has to add a new driver, especially with the new-style
> >makefiles, you have a one-line patch to a makefile, a one-line patch to
> >a Config.in, and a patch which adds the driver to the tree.
>
> Jeff, before making any more suggestions about the kernel build system,
> please see ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/kbuild/,
> makefile-wishlist-2.5-x.bz2. Your idea plus many others are already on
> the wishlist for the 2.5 kernel build redesign.
This is a vendor feature, MDK needs this for 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels.
It will exist before 2.5.x one way or another.
Jeff
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