From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751218AbWDXUUZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:20:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751224AbWDXUUZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:20:25 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:44185 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751218AbWDXUUX (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:20:23 -0400 Subject: Re: Removing .tmp_versions considered harmful From: Pavel Roskin To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1145908684.3116.65.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <1145593342.2904.30.camel@dv> <20060421073216.GA17492@mars.ravnborg.org> <1145908527.2292.39.camel@dv> <1145908684.3116.65.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:19:36 -0400 Message-Id: <1145909976.2292.52.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 (2.6.1-1.fc5.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 21:58 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 15:55 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > > Hello, Sam! > > > > How about following patch? Something needs to be done before 2.6.17. > > Complaints about .tmp_versions are almost in every list about wireless > > drivers I'm subscribed to. > > seems all wireless drivers stole eachothers broken makefiles then ;) There is is some similarity, and it's a good thing. > Makes it also easy to fix I suppose Could you please elaborate? How can it be fixed? Do you know any external module that doesn't have this problem? If you have a could of minutes, please look at Orinoco, which probably has the simplest build system, yet it suffers from the .tmp_versions problem. The Subversion repository is here http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=44338 To check the main development branch, please use svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/orinoco/trunk orinoco This is the Makefile: http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/orinoco/trunk/Makefile What would you fix? -- Regards, Pavel Roskin