linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Fix creation of include2/asm symlink

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Message-ID: <20080815194954.GA18377@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:49:54 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Fix creation of include2/asm symlink

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 03:45:58PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> The directory include2/asm can point wrongly to a non-existing
> directory on architectures that have moved include/asm under arch/*.
> 
> This patch fixes it by checking firstly whether arch/*/include/asm is
> available.

Hi Takashi.

I understand why you try to avoid include2/asm as it is not pretty.
And I had a similar patch once - but I dropped it as the symlink do
not harm and it will anyway be gone when the remaining architectures
has shifted to use arch/$ARCH/include/...

So I will not apply it.

	Sam
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