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Message-ID: <40a701a9-8c96-7fca-b043-6ca27847e151@huawei.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 16:46:09 +0800
From: Guo Xuenan <guoxuenan@...wei.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
CC: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <guoxuenan@...weicloud.com>,
<jack.qiu@...wei.com>, <ganjie5@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: dontdiff: remove 'utf8data.h'
Hi Jon,
On 2024/8/8 21:17, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Guo Xuenan <guoxuenan@...wei.com> writes:
>
>> From: ganjie <ganjie5@...wei.com>
>>
>> Commit 2b3d04787012 ("unicode: Add utf8-data module") changed the
>> database file from 'utf8data.h' to 'utf8data.c' to build separate
>> module, but it seems forgot to update Documentation/dontdiff. Remove
>> 'utf8data.h' and add 'utf8data.c'.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: ganjie <ganjie5@...wei.com>
>> ---
>> Documentation/dontdiff | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/dontdiff b/Documentation/dontdiff
>> index 3c399f132e2d..94b3492dc301 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/dontdiff
>> +++ b/Documentation/dontdiff
>> @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ vsyscall_32.lds
>> wanxlfw.inc
>> uImage
>> unifdef
>> -utf8data.h
>> +utf8data.c
>> wakeup.bin
>> wakeup.elf
>> wakeup.lds
> I'll apply this, but does anybody actually use the dontdiff file
> anymore? I think it's old and, if being used, actively harmful; for
> example, it masks changes to "parse.c", an instance of which was added
> to git in January.
>
> Is there a reason to not just remove this file?
Completely agree,It seems fs/unicode module missing to update `dontdiff`
I've actually never used it, seems that developers likely using .gitignore.
eg. 98f2345773f("unicode: fix .gitignore for generated utfdata file")
Thanks
Xuenan
> Thanks,
>
> jon
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