[kbuild-devel] Re: CML2-2.1.3 is available

2002-01-16 Thread Horst von Brand
"Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Release 2.1.3: Tue Jan 15 14:41:45 EST 2002 > > > * Resync with 2.4.18-pre3 and 2.5.2. > > > * It is now possible to declare explicit saveability predic

[kbuild-devel] Re: CML2-2.1.3 is available

2002-01-16 Thread Horst von Brand
Keep it up! As it goes, we can safely forget about CML2... -- Horst von Brand http://counter.li.org # 22616 ___ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: State of the new config & build system

2002-01-01 Thread Horst von Brand
vice) and "archivo" (file). So it can even make it hard to understand the technical literature in your own language... My standard advise is to learn English, if nothing else for uniformity's sake. You'll need it anyway before long in anything related to computing. And it is qu

[kbuild-devel] Re: State of the new config & build system

2001-12-31 Thread Horst von Brand
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Something like: > > find $TOPDIR -name "*.cf" -exec cat {} \; > Configure.help Make that: cat `find $TOPDIR -name "*.cf"` > Configure.help #;-) -- Horst von Brand [EMAIL PR

Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5

2001-12-07 Thread Horst von Brand
John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: [...] > You only need to learn Python if you are going to change the > CML2 compiler or interpreter, not if you are just changing > CML2. I did look around in CML1 when I had some troubles way back. Turned out to be my fault, or was fixed in the next patch,

Re: [kbuild-devel] Converting the 2.5 kernel to kbuild 2.5

2001-12-06 Thread Horst von Brand
John Stoffel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > "Alan" == Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> So has anyone had time to test the Python version 1.5 based CML2 that > >> was posted? Would that make it more acceptable? > > Alan> For 2.5 its a great leap forward. > > That was my thought w

Re: Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...]

2001-05-03 Thread Horst von Brand
John Stoffel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > No, we're just asking you to make the CML2 parser more tolerant of old > and possibly broken configs. It is _much_ easier on everybody involved to just bail out and ask the user (once!) to rebuild the configuration from scratch starting from the de

Re: Requirement of make oldconfig [was: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 1.3.1, aka ...]

2001-05-03 Thread Horst von Brand
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from "Horst von > *** Brand" at May 03, 2001 08:32:07 AM > > > No, we're just asking you to make the CML2 parser more tolerant of old > > > and possibly broken configs

[kbuild-devel] Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-22 Thread Horst von Brand
solution. I for one am not convinced you have a "what", let alone a "why". And AFAIKS your solution will be an enormous burden to maintain if it is not to rot away in a very short time. -- Horst von Brand [EMAIL

[kbuild-devel] Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-22 Thread Horst von Brand
er changing development organization. The MAINTAINERS file itself (maintainace of which is _much_ less work than what you propose) is (by your own account IIRC) incomplete and out of date. -- Horst von Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile

Re: [kbuild-devel] Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-22 Thread Horst von Brand
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > It whould nice also if we include the type of the license (GPL,...). If it's in-kernel, it is GPLed. -- Horst von Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile

[kbuild-devel] Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-22 Thread Horst von Brand
need to grep every file. > The right way to handle that is to have a report generator that does the > grep for you, or if you like simply returns the concatenation of all the > map blocks so you can grep that. Please, _no_ specialized-just-for-linux-kernel-hack

[kbuild-devel] Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

2001-04-22 Thread Horst von Brand
; know. I really wonder how much good work we've lost because people less > stubborn than me simply gave up on the friction costs of trying to identify > the responsible person(s) for the bits they wanted to change. They post on LKM as last resort. -- Horst von Bran