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

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 05:41:47PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> +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.

Yeah, I like this and will pick it up.  The only question is, has this
idea already been rejected in the kernel?

-- 
Tom
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