[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] MAKEALL: Add summary information

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Sep 21 10:34:57 CEST 2009


Dear Peter Tyser,

In message <1253489072.27060.51.camel at ptyser-laptop> you wrote:
>
> > > -	JOBS=-j`expr "$BUILD_NCPUS" + 1`
> > > +	JOBS="-j $(($BUILD_NCPUS + 1))"
...
> > This is an unrelated change. I would not include it with this patch.
> 
> Mike mentioned using POSIX math in the new arithmetic functions I added,
> which makes sense.  I reasoned it was better to convert the 1 other
> reference to 'expr + 1' to the same POSIX style for consistency's sake.
> Changing 1 'expr + 1' reference to $((+ 1)) doesn't seem worth its own
> commit, so I rolled it into this patch.  How about I just add a sentence
> to the commit message stating that I also converted math operations to
> be POSIX compliant?

It's still an unrelated change. Please do this in a separate patch
(probably before adding your other changes).

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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