Re: PReP support for mkvmlinuz & kernel-image 2.6

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:01:35PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sven Luther writes:
> 
> > since there is a filename conflict between the openfirmware and prep
> > objs files, i moved them both into subdirectories, which means that
> > the future 2.6.7-3 will conflict with mkvmlinuz <= 6.
> 
> As far as I can see, the only conflicting file is misc.o.  By
> installing simple/misc.o as misc-simple.o, we could preserve backwards
> compatibility.  I'll check that out.

Yep, but we lose forward compatibility, in case a new conflict arise in
the future.

Another solution would be to keep openfirmware stuff in objs, and move
simple stuff into objs/simple, but i somehow dislike the assymetry of
this.

Friendly,

Sven Luther