Re: dontdiff for 2.6.0-test4

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:18:06PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:07:41PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > 
> > dontdiff must know about many things that 'make mrproper' need not care 
> > about:
> > 
> > 	files with ".bak" suffix
> > 	files with "~" suffix
> > 	BitKeeper, CVS, RCS, SCCS directories
> 
> make mrproper already cares about all those.
> Fragments from top-level Makefile:
> 
> RCS_FIND_IGNORE := \( -name SCCS -o -name BitKeeper -o -name .svn -o -name CVS \) -prune -o
> 
> mrproper:
>         @find . $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
>                 \( -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' -o -name '*~' \
>                 -o -name '*.bak' -o -name '#*#' -o -name '.*.orig' \
>                 -o -name '.*.rej' -o -size 0 \
>                 -o -name '*%' -o -name '.*.cmd' -o -name 'core' \) \
>                 -type f -print | xargs rm -f
>         $(call cmd,mrproper)
> 

But dontdiff is a list of files that must be skipped, not a regex, right?
Then dontdiff will be useless until a build has been done on that kernel tree.