linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1

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Date:	Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:22:41 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alistair John Strachan <alistair@...zero.co.uk>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:17:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> You can use "git clean -dfx" to force git to remove ignored files too. And 
> "make distclean" should have done it too.

I just checked and make mrproper / make distclean deletes the symlink
as expected.

> Now, _another_ part (and arguably the really core reason) of this problem 
> is that our Makefile rules for the asm include directory is weak and 
> unreliable in the presense of already-existing unexpected entries.
> 
> And it has caused problems before. For example, if you somehow made the 
> symlink not be a symlink at all (by using "cp -LR" for example), or a 
> symlink pointing to another architecture (changing architecture builds in 
> the same tree without doing a "make clean" in between), you historically 
> got really odd results.

We do not cover the "asm symlink became a dir" problem.
But when all archs has moved headers it is anyway implicitly covered.

	Sam
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