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Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> 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 ??

Because they're created when building a bootwrapper?

>>> 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:

Of course not -- it wouldn't be in gitignore if it weren't a generated file.

>> 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".

Why would we want to ignore source directories?  dtc is the binary that 
is built from dtc-src.

-Scott