Re: [PATCH 1/6] Suppress A.OUT library support if !CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT [try #5]

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 14:40 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:46:46PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 03:18 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:57:31 +0000 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Please take the emacsism out of the file as it bothers Andrew and others.
> > > > 
> > > > I thought Andrew said it didn't bother him.  I assume he was curious.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Well it's just one line - hardly a big deal.
> > > 
> > > However if that line was a good one then we should get organised and
> > > annotate all Kbuild files in the tree and appoint you
> > > kbuild-makefile-tag-maintainer.
> > > 
> > > And if it wasn't a good line then it shouldn't have been added.
> > 
> > IFF we're going to annotate files like this, then also add the magic
> > incantation to make vim do the right thing :-)
> 
> How about we change its name to something more sensible instead? We
> only need this hack because the file has a .asm extension. It is
> entirely reasonable for an editor (or a person!) to conclude that a
> file with a .asm extension contains assembly language.

Bah, an entirely too sensical suggestion :-)