On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:00:30PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:39:21AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > -ARCH ?= $(SUBARCH) > > > -CROSS_COMPILE ?= > > > > Can you do this in a way that there are still these ARCH/CROSS_COMPILE > > lines that are just overriden when empty or have their default value? > > > > This way defaults could be still patched in for special cases. > > If it is OK to drop the $(SUBARCH) assingment like this then yes. > ARCH ?= > CROSS_COMPILE ?=
As long as both UML and normal architectures work still out of the box yes > I was wondering why we had the empty CROSS_COMPILE assigment and this > explains why. > But why patch something in here in the fisrt place? > It seems to be a workaround for the actual issue this patch addresses - no? Mostly. The difference is that Kbuild.config would likely contain other stuff too that might be not fit into a patch? Ok it's not a big difference. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/