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Message-ID: <21d7e9971002142050w7d6205cex5c8af7310a0dfeb4@mail.gmail.com> 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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