Re: Allow aic7xx firmware to be built from BK tree.

Justin T. Gibbs (gibbs@scsiguy.com)
Mon, 20 May 2002 21:38:49 -0600


>
>This patch removes the two generate files (that are also in the
>distributed kernel) before attempting to regenerate them.

Why is this necessary?

>The real question is, why are there generated files distributed with
>the kernel source?

Because, as I found out when I first contributed this driver,
not everyone has the tools necessary to build the assembler required
to generate these files.

--
Justin
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