From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755616AbbIWPxR (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:53:17 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36377 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755360AbbIWPxP (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:53:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 17:53:13 +0200 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Paul Bolle Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , mmarek@suse.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, jbottomley@odin.com, geert@linux-m68k.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, tiwai@suse.de, corbet@lwn.net, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, roberto@dicosmo.org, zack@upsilon.cc Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: document recursive dependency limitation / resolution Message-ID: <20150923155313.GE18173@wotan.suse.de> References: <1438200556-13842-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1438775840.30717.46.camel@tiscali.nl> <20150810185705.GX30479@wotan.suse.de> <1441281409.2439.96.camel@tiscali.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1441281409.2439.96.camel@tiscali.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 01:56:49PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote: > Hi Luis, > > (This landed in my Inbox when I was away from keyboard for a few weeks. > And then I dragged my feet a bit in answering this. Sorry about that.) No worries I will note that I try to be as thorough so sadly this can go on forever... I've taken your feedback and placed it first to explain *why* this happens, then I added another subsection explaining one practical ramification of such issue. Lastly I've exanded the patch with some homework for folks to consider. Luis