> So when I move that file to include/generated I will break users script > silently - sigh. It's a possibility. If so, they will probably have a far easier time handling a simple change in the location of the file than an entirely new scheme where there is no simple file that contains the same string. > Revised patch following your guidelines below. > Does this look better to you? Yes, I like it! I wonder if we might want to treat SUBARCH the same way, though. I'm not sure that matters except for the ARCH=um case, but there I have the impression it has exactly the same utility as $ARCH otherwise, so it makes sense to me to treat it similarly. Thanks, Roland -- 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