From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757879Ab2ENUjM (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2012 16:39:12 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:36477 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757809Ab2ENUjL (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2012 16:39:11 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 13:39:06 -0700 From: Greg KH To: "Winkler, Tomas" Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Please send a patch to set .gitignore to handle Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version Message-ID: <20120514203906.GA11436@kroah.com> References: <20120514201228.GA21466@kroah.com> <5B8DA87D05A7694D9FA63FD143655C1B102512@HASMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5B8DA87D05A7694D9FA63FD143655C1B102512@HASMSX103.ger.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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