On Tue, October 6, 2009 3:44 pm, Rob Landley wrote: > On Monday 05 October 2009 18:57:14 berk walker wrote: >> Rob Landley wrote: >> > On Monday 05 October 2009 11:01:39 Vladimir Dronnikov wrote: >> >> From: Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> >> >> drivers/md/unroll.pl replaced by awk script to drop build-time >> >> dependency on perl >> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov@xxxxxxxxx> >> > >> > Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> > >> > We already discussed this on another mailing list, thread starts at: >> > >> > http://lists.impactlinux.com/pipermail/firmware-impactlinux.com/2009-Octo >> >ber/000328.html >> > >> > I've added this as patch #4 in the perl removal series I've submitted >> > during the last few merge windows. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Rob >> >> Why is perl being removed? [I know that I have missed a lot] >> berk- > > Before 2.6.25 the kernel build had never used perl, Uhhhmmmm. md has used perl for creating some C files since RAID6 was added, which is before the dawn of git. So I don't think this statement is true. I'm have to remove the perl dependency though. NeilBrown > and the first perl > removal > patches were submitted for 2.6.26, so the real question is "why was it > added, > and was it worth it?" > > There was a long thread on an earlier submission of the patches, which > Alan > Cox concluded (as far as I'm concerned, unless Linus, Andrew Morton, or > maybe > Al Viro want to weigh in) with this post: > > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0901.1/02108.html > > Archives are linked from there, you might have to check adjacent weeks > too. > > Rob > -- > Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus > Torvalds > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
