Re: [PATCH/RFC] Move generated files to include/generated

Amerigo Wang
2009-07-22T09:56:08Z

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:10:40PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>In 2.6.30 we introduced support for adding generated
>files to a dedicated directory named "include/generated".
>

Personally, I don't like this, I hate to see
#include <generated/foo.h>
.

>This had a number of benefits:
>
> - avoid mixing generated and normal files

I don't think this is an advantage...

> - allow us to finally kill the asm symlink

This makes sense, but it looks like only when 'make O=xxx',
no?

> - simpler .gitignore rules
> - simpler list of mrproper files

Neither these two.

The benifits we get is little, I think.

Thanks.