linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/10] UAPI: Place comments in empty arch Kbuilds to make them non-empty

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Message-ID: <507ED1FE.4070506@tilera.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:42:54 -0400
From:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
CC:	<torvalds@...l.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] UAPI: Place comments in empty arch Kbuilds to make
 them non-empty

On 10/17/2012 10:15 AM, David Howells wrote:
> Place comments in:
>
> 	arch/mips/include/asm/Kbuild
> 	arch/tile/include/arch/Kbuild
>
> to make them non-empty so that the patch program doesn't remove them when it
> reduces them to nothing.
>
> Possibly they should be just deleted, but it's possible that they'll acquire
> generic-y or genhdr-y lines in future, so I'm keeping them around for the
> moment.
>
> Note that MIPS will compile happily if the file is deleted instead.  I haven't
> tested TILE, but I suspect it will be the same there.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
> cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>

Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>

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Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
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