On Monday 22 January 2001 10:02 am, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> mpumford@black-star.demon.co.uk said:
> > The kernel build process does not do any depency checking for
> > assembler files  so assembler files do not get rebuilt if a header
> > that they depend on is  changed. iomd_iic.S uses the IOMD base address
> > defined in iomd.h.
>
> That's because the depend routines only scan for assembler files beginning
> with .s (not .S).  I don't know why arm32's are so named -- maybe it's
> because we used to use gcc to pre-process them at one point.

Perhaps we should rename them (I often wondered why they were .S), or expand 
the build system to treat .S as .s's

Chris