From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from agminet01.oracle.com (agminet01.oracle.com [141.146.126.228]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E2A83DE027 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:37:56 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <48C83E29.4070508@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:37:45 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean MacLennan Subject: Re: arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore questions References: <48C81ED5.1030701@oracle.com> <20080910164046.4813753b@wally.pikatech.com> In-Reply-To: <20080910164046.4813753b@wally.pikatech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sean MacLennan wrote: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:24:05 -0700 > "Randy Dunlap" wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was looking at the arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore file. >> Why are all of those non-local-directory files listed there? >> E.g., empty.c, inf*.c, inf*.h, zconf.h, zlib.h, zutil.h, etc. Why would these files be listed in arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore ?? >> And what is "dtc"? I see a dtc-src directory, but "dtc" is MIA. > > ./arch/powerpc/boot/dtc Where do you see that? That's not in 2.6.27-rc6 nor in the current powerpc.git tree. They both have: > pwd /var/linsrc/lin2627-rc6/arch/powerpc/boot > ls -ld dt* drwxr-xr-x 2 rdunlap users 4096 Jul 13 14:51 dtc-src/ drwxr-xr-x 2 rdunlap users 4096 Sep 9 19:33 dts/ which leads me to believe that the .gitignore entry should be either dts or dtc-src or both, but not "dtc". > I believe if the dts is built into u-boot, the dtc is not built. > >> Same for kernel-vmlinux.strip.* > > I don't see a vmlinux.strip.* rule. I ignore vmlinux.strip. again, where are you looking? This is in the current arch/powerpc/boot/.gitignore file. ~Randy