Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] pm:cpupower: Add SWIG bindings files for libcpupower

["John B. Wyatt IV" <jwyatt@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 08:39:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Sept 2024 at 14:23, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 10:19:09PM -0400, John B. Wyatt IV wrote:
> > >
> > >  .../bindings/python/raw_pylibcpupower.i       | 247 ++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > This file is deleted when running "make mrproper".
> 
> Yes, please don't create files called '*.i", "*.s" or "*.o".  We
> assume they are generated files (the result of the preprocessor, the
> compiler, and the assembler respectively).
> 
> And yeah, obviously "*.i" and "*.s" and not _usually_ seen, because
> they are only steps on the way to "*.o", so maybe they aren't _quite_
> as obvious as some "*.o" file would be, but they are very much
> standard naming, and we have build rules for them (ie "make
> kernel/exit.i" will create the pre-processed result of exit.c).
> 

My apologies. This was reported and fixed with this patch by renaming
the file to '.swg'. '.swg' is the second filename extension used by
SWIG.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20240913201705.7764-1-minhuadotchen@gmail.com/

-- 
Sincerely,
John Wyatt
Software Engineer, Core Kernel
Red Hat