From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] kbuild: Remove stale asm-generic wrappers
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 17:55:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6113470.ejZJVBYpBf@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1463991681-3531-1-git-send-email-james.hogan@imgtec.com>
On Monday, May 23, 2016 9:21:19 AM CEST James Hogan wrote:
> This patchset attempts to fix kbuild to automatically remove stale
> asm-generic wrappers, i.e. when files are removed from generic-y and
> added directly into arch/*/include/uapi/asm/, but where the existing
> wrapper in arch/*/include/generated/asm/ continues to be used.
>
> MIPS was recently burned by this in v4.3 (see patch 2), with continuing
> reports of build failures when people upgrade their trees, which go away
> after arch/mips/include/generated is removed (or reportedly make
> mrproper/distclean). It is particularly irritating during bisection.
Nice series!
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
There are a number of files that we leave behind after a make clean,
and I also wondered if we could remove some more of them, but I couldn't
easily figure out which of them were left intentionally.
The asm-generic wrappers certainly are not there for a good reason,
and it's good to see them gone.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-23 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-23 8:21 [PATCH v3 0/2] kbuild: Remove stale asm-generic wrappers James Hogan
2016-05-23 8:21 ` James Hogan
2016-05-23 8:21 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] kbuild, x86: Track generated headers with generated-y James Hogan
2016-05-23 8:21 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] kbuild: Remove stale asm-generic wrappers James Hogan
2016-05-23 8:21 ` James Hogan
2016-05-23 15:55 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-05-23 15:55 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] " Arnd Bergmann
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