Yeah, this time hopefully I'm not confusing the version
numbers. The last release was -rc2, _this_ is -rc3.

Using the syntax:
make dir/module.ko

kbuild now allows one to build a module including the final link stage.
This is usefull when one only wants to compile a single module and thus do
not have to wait until a full kernel has finished compiling.  Tested by:
randy_dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

  make O=/dir TAGS

  fails with:

    MAKE   TAGS
  find: security/selinux/include: No such file or directory
  find: include: No such file or directory
  find: include/asm-i386: No such file or directory
  find: include/asm-generic: No such file or directory

  The problem is in this line:
  ifeq ($(KBUILD_OUTPUT),)

KBUILD_OUTPUT is not defined (ever) after make reruns itself.  This line is
used in the TAGS, tags, and cscope makes.

Signed-off-by: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Ok, a lot of things were pending after the 2.6.12 release, let's try to
start calming things down again.

Fixes http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4726



Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Frame pointers are supposed to enable debuggers to reliably tell where a
call comes from.  That is defeated by GCC's sibling call optimization (aka
tail recursion elimination).

This patch turns this optimization off when compiling with frame pointers.

Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Getting ready for the real release..

The arch Makefile may override the include path order, which is used by Xen
(and UML?) to make sure include/asm-xen is searched before
include/asm-i386.

The Makefile change to 2.6.12-rc4 made the top Makefile always override the
value specified by the arch Makefile.  This trivial patch makes the Xen
kernel compile again.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

I've noticed that, starting from linux-2.6.12-rc1, in the top Makefile the
"cmd_tags" variable has been changed in a way incompatible with *emacs
ctags.  Since the "--extra" option exists only in "exuberant ctags", it
should be included in the CTAGSF shell variable.

Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Move definition of NOSTDINC_FLAGS below inclusion of arch Makefile, so
any arch specific settings to $(CC) takes effect before looking up the
compiler include directory.

The previous solution that replaced ':=' with '=' caused gcc to be
invoked one additional time for each directory visited.

This decreases kernel compile time with 0.1 second (3.6 -> 3.5 seconds) when
running make on a fully built kernel

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Releasing this will also make "git" the official source control
thing. Here's to hoping for the best.

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!