Re: Kernel Releases

Phil Howard (phil-linux-kernel@ipal.net)
Sun, 25 Nov 2001 07:34:10 -0600


On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 09:24:21PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:

| Have you been following the kbuild 2.5 developments[1]? Linus has
| agreed that this change will go in early in the 2.5 cycle, that will
| impact on all automated testing for 2.5. There will be both good and
| bad impacts, the bad is the initial changeover, the good is a much
| cleaner build process and the ability to build multiple configurations
| from a single source tree.

Some of us have this ability with our own stuff already. I've been
doing automated multi-config builds since 2.0. But it will be nice
to not have to track a moving target anymore. There will be a bigger
initial bump for some of us, but hopefully all the features will be
in there.

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