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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Please send a patch to set .gitignore to handle Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 13:39:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120514203906.GA11436@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5B8DA87D05A7694D9FA63FD143655C1B102512@HASMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com>

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 08:33:24PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm tired of seeing Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version show
> > up in 'git status' as an untracked file, care to please fix it up?
> 
> Oh right I forgot the .gitignore
> 
> Maybe we can add some CONFIG_ option to avoid unconditional  compilation 
> of the example code, what do you think? 

Yes, that might be good.

> > But really, shouldn't binary files like this to into tools/ instead of
> > Documentation?
> I'm not sure it is really a tool it just really  example code.
> 
> There are other  examples of that e.g.  Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test  and some more

tools/ is newer than those files, and how are they generated, by CONFIG
options, or something else?

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-14 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-14 20:12 Please send a patch to set .gitignore to handle Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version Greg KH
2012-05-14 20:33 ` Winkler, Tomas
2012-05-14 20:39   ` Greg KH [this message]

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