linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/13] UAPI header file split

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:48:38 +0200
From:	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	arnd@...db.de, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...nel.org,
	davej@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] UAPI header file split

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:56 PM, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

[...]

> ===================
> IMPLEMENTING STEP 1
> ===================
>
> The patches actually posted here are the manual preparation for the UAPI split
> in step (1) above.  I haven't posted the patches that do the actual splitting
> by email as the largest of them is in excess of 120,000 lines.  However, the
> patches are available through GIT:
>
>         http://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers.git
>
> The patches are to be found on the uapi-split branch.  The patches posted here
> are from the base of that branch up to the uapi-prep tag; the automated split
> follows thereafter to the uapi-post-split tag.

In the uapi-split branch, there are now 44 empty Kbuild files. Was
that intended? Or, should these files rather be removed by your
patches?

Thanks,

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface", http://blog.man7.org/
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