From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:22:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081024192241.GA17080@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810240801540.3287@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:17:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> You can use "git clean -dfx" to force git to remove ignored files too. And
> "make distclean" should have done it too.
I just checked and make mrproper / make distclean deletes the symlink
as expected.
> Now, _another_ part (and arguably the really core reason) of this problem
> is that our Makefile rules for the asm include directory is weak and
> unreliable in the presense of already-existing unexpected entries.
>
> And it has caused problems before. For example, if you somehow made the
> symlink not be a symlink at all (by using "cp -LR" for example), or a
> symlink pointing to another architecture (changing architecture builds in
> the same tree without doing a "make clean" in between), you historically
> got really odd results.
We do not cover the "asm symlink became a dir" problem.
But when all archs has moved headers it is anyway implicitly covered.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-24 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-24 4:10 Linux 2.6.28-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2008-10-24 4:14 ` Roland Dreier
2008-10-24 18:08 ` Greg KH
2008-10-24 11:24 ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-10-24 11:45 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-10-24 12:52 ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-10-24 13:13 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-24 14:56 ` git-clean [Was: Linux 2.6.28-rc1] Björn Steinbrink
2008-10-24 15:17 ` Linux 2.6.28-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2008-10-24 19:22 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2008-10-24 22:31 ` David Miller
2008-10-24 22:51 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-10-24 19:15 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-10-24 23:44 ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-10-24 17:09 ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-24 17:54 ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-24 17:57 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-10-24 18:05 ` Fenghua Yu
2008-10-24 18:11 ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-24 18:59 ` 2.6.28-rc1: EIP: slab_destroy+0x84/0x142 Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-24 21:38 ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-24 22:09 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-24 23:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-10-25 0:24 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-25 0:30 ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-25 2:54 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-25 3:00 ` Matt Mackall
2008-10-25 3:20 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-26 12:30 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-26 21:27 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-27 14:23 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-27 14:24 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-24 22:28 ` nf_conntrack oopes on parisc/smp (was Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1) Domenico Andreoli
2008-10-24 22:53 ` Linux 2.6.28-rc1 Tony Vroon
2008-10-24 23:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-26 13:17 ` Tony Vroon
2008-10-30 14:26 ` 2.6.28-rc1: NVRAM being corrupted on ppc64 preventing boot (bisected) Mel Gorman
2008-10-30 14:26 ` Mel Gorman
2008-10-30 20:52 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-30 20:52 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-30 21:05 ` Josh Boyer
2008-10-30 21:05 ` Josh Boyer
2008-10-30 21:35 ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-10-30 21:35 ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-10-31 10:36 ` Mel Gorman
2008-10-31 10:36 ` Mel Gorman
2008-10-31 11:10 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-31 11:10 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-31 11:31 ` Mel Gorman
2008-10-31 11:31 ` Mel Gorman
2008-10-31 18:36 ` Mel Gorman
2008-10-31 18:36 ` Mel Gorman
2008-10-31 11:18 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-31 11:18 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-31 11:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-31 11:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-31 11:56 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-31 11:56 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-31 11:32 ` Mel Gorman
2008-10-31 11:32 ` Mel Gorman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-24 18:10 Linux 2.6.28-rc1 Rufus & Azrael
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