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Message-ID: <s5hskt5nxfs.wl%tiwai@suse.de> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:03:51 +0200 From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> 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 At Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:49:54 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > 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. Hm, OK. Originally I fixed it because our build system has a sanity check against bogus symlinks and refused to package the latest kernel. If you don't want to put it in, we can keep it locally, of course. But, a bogus symlink is definitely not pretty... thanks, Takashi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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