On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:30:01 +1000 David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Except didn't you say you were going to work with Stephen to get DTC > > into the kernel source itself? Keeping things similar to Kbuild might > > help in that effort. > > Actually, after discussions with Stephen and Paulus, we decided not to > take this route. In any case having Kbuild like versioning wouldn't > actually help us any in integrating into a full Kbuild system. Can you elaborate why you decided not to? I'm just curious. > > > Have a look at the patch I posted. I haven't sufficiently tested it > > > yet, but it should be able to generated version info for a tarball too > > > (provided the .git-manifest file is included, and I'm intending that > > > will be build by a make dist target). It will give both the > > > git-derived based version, and a file content derived hash so we can > > > robustly tell different builds apart, all with less code than the > > > current system. > > > > That may be. But I don't see the current approach being too much of a > > problem either. Especially given that it's already there and it > > works. Oh, and you sent out your patch saying it wasn't ready for > > merge and with no sign off. Small but important issues to fix I'd > > think. > > Yeah, it lacks a make dist target, and needs a bit more work to > support that properly. Never mind, I'll revisit this post the 1.0 > release. Ok. josh _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
