[PATCH] Kbuild: fix generating Config.in and Kbuild

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 1 03:53:16 UTC 2010


On Thursday 27 May 2010 14:46, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> This stuff is part of the make machinery, so implement it in make
> proper.
> Avoids spurious, slow re-generation of the generated Config.in and
> Kbuild files.

Well, our makefile machinery is complex and it tries so hard
to not regenerate files that it itself is slow
(but not too bad) and COMPLEX (which I personally
see as a bigger problem wrt maintainability).

The patch is perhaps conceptually right. But my tiny brain
will have difficulty understanding and supporting
all these horrible makefile constructs. Where "horrible"
is not your fault, most makefiles end up looking like that.

I propose keeping it as is for now.
-- 
vda


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