Re: Kernel source tree splitting

Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:10:05 -0700


> I'm probably misreading this...but,
>
> Have you tried this yet? Does it modify/customize all Kconfig
> and Makefiles for the selected tree splits?
>
> A few days ago, in one tree, I rm-ed arch/{all that I don't need}
> and drivers/{all that I don't need}.
> After that I couldn't run "make *config" because it wants all of
> those files, even if I don't want them.
>
> So there are many edits that needed to be done in lots of
> Kconfig and Makefiles if one selectively pulls or omits certain
> sub-directories.

Indeed, I ran across the same thing a while back. Would be *really* nice to
fix, if only so some poor sod over a modem can download a smaller tarball,
or save some diskspace.

M.

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