On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 10:58:53PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 10:13:03PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
> >>> Please pull from the for-linus branch:
> >>> git pull git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6.git for-linus
> >>>
> >>> This will update the following files:
> >>>
> >>> fs/xfs/Makefile-linux-2.6 | 1 -
> >> Is there a reason the other various makefile updates still haven't been
> >> pushed? They're a lot tidier now, and they facilitate out-of-tree
> >> building...
> >
> > Well, the makefiles are pretty different for CVS vs mainline to modular
> > quota and dmapi. I'm thinking about doing a proof of concept modular
> > quota patch for mainline and if it doesn't get too ugly that would
> > mean the makefiles are a lot more in sync.
>
> Even if they differ, they can still get the same basic treatment. I'll
> make a patch if desired. The current kernel.org makefiles are a mess,
> IMHO :)
They could, but I understand the SGI people fully if they try to touch
the things that differ as little as possible.
But yeah, please send a patch, I've done quite a few mainline-only
patches yesterday aswell :)
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