> $srctree is defined by kbuild in the toplevel Makefile.
How is this variable passed to the file “scripts/nsdeps”?
>> * Would you like to support a separate build directory for desired adjustments?
>
> No, as the purpose of this script is to directly patch the kernel
> sources where applicable.
Will there occasionally be a need to provide a generated patch
(without in-place file modification)?
>> I suggest to assign the name for the temporary file to a variable
>> which should be used by subsequent commands.
>
> I somehow don't agree that this is an improvement to the code as the
> variable would likely be something like ${source_file_tmp}.
Would you dare to choose a shorter variable name?
> ${source_file}.tmp does express the intent of a temporary file next to
> the original source file and the reader of the code does not need to
> reason about the value of ${source_file_tmp}.
I would find a code variant with less suffix repetition nicer.
Regards,
Markus
