[OpenAFS-devel] (Re-)building the Linux kernel module

[Derrick Brashear]

the rationale for forcing is described at the end of RT 4767.

"This makes 'make' actually rebuild things if files change. It could be
more efficient at doing so (the perl script should not replace symlinks
that are untouched), but at least it will do it now."


On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Simon Wilkinson <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On 25 Sep 2010, at 05:32, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Why are we forcing this? =A0Just because no one's come up with the corre=
ct
>> dependencies to know when to rebuild the kernel module properly?
>
> That code comes from d5dfb911, which was contributed by Jeff Hutzelman, s=
o it may be worth asking him.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon.
>
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