linux-kernel - Re: [path] don't diff generated firmware files

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Message-Id: <20080912101742.b3e2ea33.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:17:42 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [path] don't diff generated firmware files

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 03:14:19 +0400 Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 03:09:51PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > With the new firmware infrastructure in 2.6.27, some files are generated and shouldn't be
> > diffed; add these 2 to the "dontdiff" file
> 
> > --- linux.trees.git/Documentation/dontdiff
> > +++ linux.trees.git/Documentation/dontdiff
> > @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
> >  *.css
> >  *.dvi
> >  *.eps
> > +*.fw.gen.S
> > +*.fw
> 
> Dontdiff is obsoleted because of .gitignore and should probably be auto-generated
> from them.

Let's please not assume that everyone uses git nor force that.

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~Randy
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