kbuild 2.5 ports for -pre9 and -pre9-ac1

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I'm here to announce updates of kbuild 2.5 patch to apply on 2.4.19-pre9 and 2.4.19-pre9-ac1

Remember - I'm not Keith Owens - I'm just impressed by his work. There is no non-i386 portions in my patches (yet) but they will added (I believe).

Comments, patches, and other stuff are welcome.

You can grab patches here:
http://stingr.net/l/kbuild25-for-2.4.19-pre9.bz2
http://stingr.net/l/kbuild25-for-2.4.19-pre9-ac1.bz2

or ftp://stingr.net/pub/l/kbuild25-for-2.4.19-pre9.bz2 ftp://stingr.net/pub/l/kbuild25-for-2.4.19-pre9-ac1.bz2

I'm also thrown away IKCONFIG feature in -ac, but It will be reenabled in future versions

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Thanks for this, it shows that other people can do kbuild 2.5 work.

However there are no plans to replace the kernel build method in 2.4 kernels, it is too big a change for a stable kernel. I have already extracted several bugs fixes from kbuild 2.5 and fed them to Marcelo or Alan Cox.

There is a limited amount that can be fixed in the 2.4 kernel build without a large impact on users. Anything that forces an upgrade past make 3.77.1 (the currently required version on 2.4 kernels) is unacceptable.

However, for folks like me who develop mainly on the 2.4 kernel this is a real blessing, and I hope Paul continues to maintain this.

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Oh, I've got 3.79.1, there ya go, I guess that's why it works. Thanks once again, debian gnomes. Anyway, there's not a lot to fear since the patch has no apparent ill effect on the operation of old kbuild. I'm not advocating that Marcelo merge it just yet, no rush. It obviously needs to mature in 2.5 first.

Daniel