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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, arnd@arndb.de,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UAPI: Remove empty Kbuild files
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:18:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130326131828.209aff73e38d3273d078bb2e@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130326174853.10144.36253.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:48:53 +0000 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> Remove empty Kbuild files as they cause problems with the patch program which
> removes files that become empty.
> 
> Should I also remove include/Kbuild as that now does nothing?  Or should it be
> left as an anchor just in case we want it in future?

I think that if the build system created it, a `make clean' or `make
mproper' should rub it out again.  Ideally a `make mrproper' will give
you a tree which is identical to a freshly-untarred kernel.org tarball
(yes?).

Which reminds me of my email which you're still hiding from ;)
Shouldn't a `make mrproper' undo the effects of `make headers_install'
by wiping ./usr/include/?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-26 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-26 17:48 [PATCH] UAPI: Remove empty Kbuild files David Howells
2013-03-26 17:48 ` David Howells
2013-03-26 20:18 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-03-26 20:59   ` David Howells
2013-03-26 20:59     ` David Howells
2013-03-26 21:05     ` Andrew Morton
2013-03-26 21:27       ` David Howells
2013-03-26 21:47         ` Michal Marek
2013-03-26 22:54           ` David Howells
2013-03-26 22:54             ` David Howells
2013-03-26 23:29             ` Michal Marek
2013-03-26 23:29               ` Michal Marek
2013-03-26 23:32               ` David Howells
2013-03-26 23:32                 ` David Howells

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