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From: Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Move generated files to include/generated
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:58:18 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090722095818.GH6281@cr0.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090721211040.GA7688@merkur.ravnborg.org>

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-22  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-21 21:10 [PATCH/RFC] Move generated files to include/generated Sam Ravnborg
2009-07-21 21:19 ` [PATCH 01/10] kbuild: move bounds.h " Sam Ravnborg
2009-07-21 21:19 ` [PATCH 02/10] kbuild: move asm-offsets.h " Sam Ravnborg
2009-07-21 21:19 ` [PATCH 03/10] ia64: move nr-irqs.h " Sam Ravnborg
2009-07-21 21:48   ` Yu, Fenghua
     [not found]   ` <A6AD88C3F2289247BE726C37303E1EB8B09F47F2@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>
2009-07-21 21:58     ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-07-21 21:19 ` [PATCH 04/10] sh: move machtypes.h " Sam Ravnborg
2009-07-21 21:19 ` [PATCH 05/10] arm: move mach-types " Sam Ravnborg
2009-07-21 21:19 ` [PATCH 06/10] kbuild: drop asm symlink Sam Ravnborg
2009-07-21 21:19 ` [PATCH 07/10] kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated Sam Ravnborg
2009-07-21 21:19 ` [PATCH 08/10] drop unneeded include of autoconf.h Sam Ravnborg
2009-07-21 21:19 ` [PATCH 09/10] kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated Sam Ravnborg
2009-07-21 21:19 ` [PATCH 10/10] kbuild: move utsrelease.h " Sam Ravnborg
2009-07-22  9:58 ` Amerigo Wang [this message]
2009-07-22 13:50   ` [PATCH/RFC] Move generated files " Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-22 20:33     ` Sam Ravnborg

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