linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm: use include/gen for mach-types.h

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904181226170.4042@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:28:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
cc:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>, takata@...ux-m32r.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: use include/gen for mach-types.h



On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> diff --git a/include/gen/.gitignore b/include/gen/.gitignore
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..1e809fd
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/gen/.gitignore
> @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> +# mach-types.h is used by arm
> +mach-types.h

I think this is bad.

The whole point of having 'include/gen' should be that _all_ files in that 
directory should be generated. So it should be include/.gitignore that 
just contains the pattern "gen/" and that's it.

That said, I also dislike "gen" as a name. To me, it is more likely to 
mean "generation" in the sense of father/son/grandson than "generated". 
Why not spell it out?

		Linus
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