linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] limit _shipped to c h and S files

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Date:	Tue, 02 Dec 2014 12:49:22 +0100
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
CC:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] limit _shipped to c h and S files

On 2014-12-02 11:32, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, Michal Marek wrote:
> 
>> Dne 2.12.2014 v 10:16 Nicholas Mc Guire napsal(a):
>>>
>>> limit _shipped to c h and S files
>>>
>>> _shipped targets are intended for generated source files which should
>>> not permit .o binary blobs which is currently the case. This patch
>>> simply restricts _shipped targets to .c, .h and .S files.
>>
>>
>> IMO this just adds lines of code without any obvious advantage. The
>> other patches in the series are fine.
>>
> 
> The idea simply was to make the behavior of kbuild match the
> documented intent of _shipped files.

The usage of *.o_shipped is documented by Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt.

Michal
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