From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:07:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Makefile: fix generation of assembler listings
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001060100550.3630@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20100106080216.GA7298@progeny.tock>



On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
> Patch 1 fixes a problem I noticed when tweaking the Makefile to
> automatically generate dependencies for the %.o targets.  The problem
> is that the dependencies for the corresponding %.s (code listing)
> targets are not included in the Makefile at all, automatically or not.

Patches 1-3 (which were the ones I was cc'd on) look sane to me. Having 
real dependencies might be prettier, but I agree that since a *.s file is 
only generated on demand (and useful mainly to see code generation), just 
forcing the build makes sense.

		Linus