Towards non-recursive makefiles

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 04:09:23PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> : I've long believed that one big-ass Makefile was needed for the kernel
> 
> Count my vote for this as well.  I know both ways have their drawbacks,
> but the limiting factor in how far you can scale things in parallel
> rather quickly becomes make itself.  If everything is in one makefile,
> it tends to work a lot better.

Not to mention that make -j can do its thing properly...

Call me a slacker, but I only managed to get drivers/scsi done last night
before going to sleep.  The good news is that it went from 671 lines to
140 using the list trick (and some rationalisation and dead code removal).

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