Re: Development tree, PLEASE?

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:10:25PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 davej    davej        4613 Dec 15 23:31 linux-2.6-build-nonintconfig.patch
> 
> Adds a 'nonintconfig' target that behaves like oldconfig, but doesn't
> ask any questions (takes the default answer), and prints out a list
> at the end of all the options it didn't know about.
> (Handy when rebasing, as it means I get to add all the new options
>  in one swoop).
I have this around somewhere. hch did it but recall Roman did not
like it. It's in my pile of 'when I am in kconfig hacking mode' which
happens now and then.

> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 davej    davej         605 Dec 15 23:31 linux-2.6-build-reference-discarded-opd.patch
> 
> Think I posted this already, and it may even be in 16rc
Have applied some changes recently. Needs to come in via (or acked-by)
Keith Ownes though.

> -rw-r--r--    1 davej    davej        1686 Dec 15 23:31 linux-2.6-build-userspace-headers-warning.patch
> 
> adds a #error to includes if __KERNEL__ isn't being used
> (We want people to use the headers from our glibc-kernheaders package,
>  not from the kernel soucre).
Will not touch it. Combining 'kernel header files' and 'userspace' in 
same sentence generate far too much noise :-(

> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 davej    davej        1753 Dec 15 23:31 linux-2.6-bzimage.patch
> 
> To get around some gynamstics in the rpm spec, defining a seperate build target
> for every arch, we make every arch grok 'bzImage'. Fugly, but it keeps the
> spec cleaner to maintain.

Yup - seen it before. Did not like it.
Consistent use of KBUILD_IMAGE across relevant architectures should buy
you the same simplicity and a mergeable approach.

Thanks,
	Sam
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