[U-Boot] [PATCH] kbuild: create a build directory automatically for out-of-tree build

[Simon Glass]

+Tom

On 23 March 2014 22:55, Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com> wrote:

> Prior to Kbuild, the build system created a build directory,
> when it did not exist, for out-of-tree build.
>
> This feature was dropped when we switched to Kbuild
> because many of lines in makefiles were copied from Linux Kernel.
> (In Linux Kernel, we have to create a build directory by ourselves
> before starting build.)
>
> That feature seems worth reviving for less typing
> even if our code and Linux Kernel diverge.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com>
> Suggested-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>

Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
Tested-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Arguably could be a bug-fix for this release.