Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

[Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>]

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 04:41:49 Linus Torvalds wrote:
[snip]
> In other words, people who know they may be affected and would want to
> prepare can look at (for example)
>
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86.git x86
>
> and generally get ready for the switch-over.

This is certainly a tool issue, but if I use Debian's kernel-image "make-kpkg" 
wrapper around the kernel build system, it fails with:

cp: cannot stat `arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage': No such file or directory

Obviously, this file has moved to arch/x86/boot, but it seems like possibly 
unnecessary breakage. I've been copying bzImage for years from 
arch/x86_64/boot, and I'm sure there's a handful of scripts (other than 
Debian's kernel-image) doing this too.

For now, I hacked the tool[1]. Maybe, if we care, a symlink could be set up 
between arch/x86/boot and arch/$ARCH/boot ? Or would papering over this be 
more trouble than it's worth?

[1] http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/kernel-package-changes.diff

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

137/1 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, UK.

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