On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:36:10PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 07:42:11PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Perhaps it makes more sense to have vdso_install be a dependency of > > modules_install rather than install, since they both put things in /lib/modules. > > The installed vdso images are potentially useful for a kernel when you > > aren't bothering to build or install any modules, but those images are only > > ever useful for sophisticated debugging uses anyway. > > > > Sam, any thoughts? (See arch/x86/Makefile and arch/powerpc/Makefile.) > > Installing the vdso files as aprt of modules_install would be > unintuitive as this has nothing to do with modules. > > And since you wrote: > > useful for sophisticated debugging uses anyway > I suggest to make the vdso_install step independent as > in following patch. > [Note: help docs needs to mention the new target]. > > This solves the issue at ahnd and still gives us the posibility > to install the files should they be needed. Roland - if you agree will you please submit the patch to the x86 people. You can tag it: Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> or Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> as you like. Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
