linux-kernel - Re: Zero-length ARM headers in git HEAD

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Date:	Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:37:37 +0100
From:	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linus.walleij@...aro.org,
	swarren@...dia.com, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	"Arnaud Patard (Rtp)" <arnaud.patard@...-net.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>, bs14@....com
Subject: Re: Zero-length ARM headers in git HEAD

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 03:50:10PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Gents,
>
> In the following kernel commits,
>
> 	9c587c05d715ca8461342c2cb3b4a67036b5c22b
> 	ea5abbd215b749b2ff14397a47a5e65741c67bf4
> 	cc890cd78acd7ab03442907d354b6af34e973cb3
>
> the file ...$platform/mach/gpio.h is replaced with an empty file.  This  
> disagrees with kernel tradition and kernel makefiles, where zero length  
> files are intentionally deleted when "make distclean" is executed.

It would really help to have a hook in git which catches this at commit
time with a warning (like is possible for whitespace).  At least that
would alert folk to the problem at commit time before stuff has been
published.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:
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