Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:21:48 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1 |
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:12:18PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > The Makefile stuff is trivial to merge. > > yes. But even Makefile merging can be surprisingly nontrivial at times: > we had bugs in earlier versions of the unification due to link ordering > and silent init section dependencies in the code. When we unified the > makefiles certain init code broke because the initcall ordering changed. > That's why we went for the "stupid, mechanic unification" approach first > - to always have a 100% correct fallback position that people can bisect > to.
With trivial I thought of: ifeq ($(ARCH),x86_64) include arch/x86/Makefile_64 else include arch/x86/Makefile_32 endif
And common stuff could be put before/after the include.
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