From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 241412E0902; Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:50:33 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1782262234; cv=none; b=Z5FHARBwYJ5ijToQhDtF0DvAFW/pjXZTXFQD9YYgWl8PSLd7smmSUJlNq6qVmd/76u8TaPDchp2LvNj8N/qneTFePr/RVuT//3p+2lcd8Y7NJCZKEy9OutFnjuKy+aA6xzsQ7tXi8FZWzvHkjxU3sNna+k4E7tb3N7JE4StWtIw= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1782262234; c=relaxed/simple; bh=60mwFsM5b+aG9AS2Xr5ByP6LfaZvFc9s2FbKxXVXwBg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=sQXNl1Jy7MOD0sU9rL/+fU33hLGIBUJbjWg4Al8BwzfqMwssV9JpzNIdhYU80jdTa0GmUnlT+aSHlW+Isc8eCA/Ykn97dZA7ag45Pml0L2ZFz5bi+OK0by0BMPrSHNY4lrDR3ZuFB3nV/rScucP1t5SmbDcUXl7awmAZp7CWOYE= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=b8ddaJ+L; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="b8ddaJ+L" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 56ED01F000E9; Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:50:32 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1782262232; bh=ql45DuBi62Ja8pgqfUgCiEps3I4UE6RV02anYpcpfEg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=b8ddaJ+L4j6+2bUQuwuNZszX0exiE2/63sNIYwDOUXiDJpIYBaO+k/O0idXdTjZuj A+SEEAd/QhY5j5sclMP7b5VbBM0Rgb6yBO7q22gsmNcEjDZDrvvXYcPo1vHkNQD2+i ge28Q3KLXBmcvttyDj1vKy8CFlk2PpAiujv+CsnGc553A6PTNeJqUV069u7wg5OvSa L2qcmWPXOX4KszPtQEoF7YXH4ZBZWLO9gNnvoH6VgmU9R0KnLi0M9Bcafujg3XFvdG t3UDvV7jH8Izjw5SNWswvI9RaNLl6Kgd3kPbw5IWbL/LFNohBAn1zkcCwet2QFZoJq pQ4iUoVOBweMA== Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:50:29 -0300 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Namhyung Kim , Adrian Hunter , Ian Rogers , James Clark , Jiri Olsa , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] perf bench bpf: Add missing .gitignore file Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 05:42:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 at 17:32, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > > > > .tmp is created as well. > > Note that the top-level .gitignore makes sure that we ignore any > dot-files by default (along with a lot of the usual patterns, of > course - not just object files, but various other binary file > endings). > > ( Yes, gitignore files do allow overrides to "un-ignore" files too, > but almost nobody ever uses that, there's seldom any reason for some > top-level file to say "ignore all generated files of this pattern" and > then a subdirectory gitignore says "but not this pattern". Some crazy > directories do say "ignore everything" and then they explicitly > unignore some patterns, but honestly, that's a mark of a diseased mind > ) Yeah, but having .tmp there its kinda like not depending on having the prototype for a function indirectly obtained via some include chain, by luck, having .tmp there documents that that thing is (or a strong maybe, in the case of vmlinux.h) generated there and should be ignored. Anyway, now it is ignored, doubly so in the case of .tmp. - Arnaldo