From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linus.walleij@linaro.org, swarren@nvidia.com,
Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
"Arnaud Patard (Rtp)" <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>,
bs14@csr.com
Subject: Re: Zero-length ARM headers in git HEAD
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:37:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111028203737.GA914@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EAB0772.40404@garzik.org>
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 03:50:10PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Gents,
>
> In the following kernel commits,
>
> 9c587c05d715ca8461342c2cb3b4a67036b5c22b
> ea5abbd215b749b2ff14397a47a5e65741c67bf4
> cc890cd78acd7ab03442907d354b6af34e973cb3
>
> the file ...$platform/mach/gpio.h is replaced with an empty file. This
> disagrees with kernel tradition and kernel makefiles, where zero length
> files are intentionally deleted when "make distclean" is executed.
It would really help to have a hook in git which catches this at commit
time with a warning (like is possible for whitespace). At least that
would alert folk to the problem at commit time before stuff has been
published.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-28 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-28 19:50 Zero-length ARM headers in git HEAD Jeff Garzik
2011-10-28 20:09 ` Linus Walleij
2011-10-28 20:37 ` Russell King [this message]
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