On 2014-04-01 19:44, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 03/31/2014 01:36 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> In the past I have rejected such patches - but today I fail to recall why. > > I believe that it was due this kind of patch allowing typos to cause > builds that one does not want to make. > > E.g., if I already have O=OUT1 directory and I mistype O=OUT2, this will cause > a full build (potentially) in OUT2, even if it should do a small rebuild in > OUT1 instead. I thought about this possibility before applying the patch. But if this happens, then a build in the mistyped directory will immediately fail due to lack of .config. Michal -- 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
