linux-kernel - Re: [GIT] Security subsystem changes for 2.6.33

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Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:50:17 +1000
From:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
To:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, eparis@...isplace.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT] Security subsystem changes for 2.6.33

>
>>      SELinux: add .gitignore files for dynamic classes
>
> This isn't such a good idea I've discovered after wasting half my day
> wondering why 2.6.33-rc8 oops in selinux
> code when vbetool runs.
>
> The problem (not sure what we or git can do, hence Linus cc'ed) is:
>
> a) git tree contains 2.6.32 + with old non-generated versions of
> flash.h and av_permissions.h
> b) git pull 2.6.33-rc8, nothing removes these old files, git status
> doesn't show them as they are now in .gitignore
> c) build 2.6.33, it picks up the include files from the old location
> not from the generated ones in the new tree.
> d) bad juju.
>
> I'm also doing out of tree builds btw.

Also I realise git clean -dxf would have done this, but there is
nothing to say you need to clean -x except an oops when you build
the kernel, the fact that git status is clean means its quite annoying to find.

Dave.
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