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

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Message-ID: <20090418205318.GT26366@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:53:18 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	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, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:28:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Or .gitignore in top-level, same as for include/config
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