On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 06:57:35 +0100 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:00:41PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > From: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:49:14 +0100 > > > > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 02:37:13PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > > > > > > > One thing we can do to prevent human > > > > mistakes, is to make the "make modules" pass do a quick "is vmlinux > > > > uptodate?" check, and if not print out an error message explaining the > > > > situation and aborting the "make modules" attempt. > > > > > > I do not quite follow you here. > > > > If the user tries to do a "make modules" without first rebuilding > > their kernel image, then the make will fail if the dependencies > > are not satisfied for the main kernel image and it is thus not > > up to date. > > OK - so a simple 'make -q vmlinux' check, except that the way we utilise > make will let it fail at first build command. > That will obscufate things even more in kbuild - but I will give it a > try sometime. It will be easy to cover 95% but to reach 100% > predictability will be though. > - file dependencies is easy > - command line changes is relatively easy > - but the various scripts and user commands will be tricky.. > > Not on the top of the TODO list though.
So -q means "quick" ? I wouldn't mind seeing a -quiet (even less quiet than V=0), not even printing the CC, AS, LD, etc. commands -- just let the tools print errors & warnings. I always redirect output to a disk file and filter it for errors and warnings anyway, so I want hold my breath for this, but ISTM that V=0 could be even quieter than it is right now. --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
