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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [path] don't diff generated firmware files
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:17:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080912101742.b3e2ea33.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080901231419.GA5602@x200.localdomain>

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 03:14:19 +0400 Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 03:09:51PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > With the new firmware infrastructure in 2.6.27, some files are generated and shouldn't be
> > diffed; add these 2 to the "dontdiff" file
> 
> > --- linux.trees.git/Documentation/dontdiff
> > +++ linux.trees.git/Documentation/dontdiff
> > @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
> >  *.css
> >  *.dvi
> >  *.eps
> > +*.fw.gen.S
> > +*.fw
> 
> Dontdiff is obsoleted because of .gitignore and should probably be auto-generated
> from them.

Let's please not assume that everyone uses git nor force that.

---
~Randy
Linux Plumbers Conference, 17-19 September 2008, Portland, Oregon USA
http://linuxplumbersconf.org/

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-12 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-01 22:09 [path] don't diff generated firmware files Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-01 23:14 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-09-12 17:17   ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2008-09-12 17:17   ` [PATCH] dontdiff: more updates to be closer to gitignore Randy Dunlap
2008-09-12 17:18   ` [RFC/PATCH] dontdiff: generate from gitignore Randy Dunlap
2008-09-12 17:36     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-09-12 17:41       ` Randy Dunlap
2008-09-12 20:32         ` Kai Henningsen
     [not found] <e2e108260809130052u454b6920h9745c27eb2f4b20c@mail.gmail.com>
2008-09-14 18:23 ` [RFC PATCH] Script for generating Documentation/dontdiff from .gitignore files Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-09-15 15:34   ` Randy Dunlap
2008-09-16  3:26     ` [RFC PATCH] Script for generating Documentation/dontdiff from .gitignore files. (was Re: [RFC/PATCH] dontdiff: generate from gitignore) Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu

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