Re: xfs: Makefile-linux-2.6 => Makefile?

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:42:14PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hi hch.
> 
> Any specific reason why xfs uses a indirection for the Makefile?
> It is planned to drop export of VERSION, PATCHLEVEL etc. from
> main makefile and it is OK except for xfs due to the funny
> Makefile indirection.
> 
> I suggest:
> git mv fs/xfs/Makefile-linux-2.6 fs/xfs/Makefile

I'd be all for it, but the SGI people like this layout to keep a common
fs/xfs for both 2.4 and 2.6 (with linux-2.4 and linux-2.6 subdirs respectively)

p.s. and no, I'm not official xfs maintainer and never have been, so cc set
to linux-xfs were all interested parties hang around.