From: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
To: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] limit _shipped to c h and S files
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 11:32:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141202103231.GA30141@opentech.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <547D924A.2010205@suse.cz>
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, Michal Marek wrote:
> Dne 2.12.2014 v 10:16 Nicholas Mc Guire napsal(a):
> >
> > limit _shipped to c h and S files
> >
> > _shipped targets are intended for generated source files which should
> > not permit .o binary blobs which is currently the case. This patch
> > simply restricts _shipped targets to .c, .h and .S files.
>
>
> IMO this just adds lines of code without any obvious advantage. The
> other patches in the series are fine.
>
The idea simply was to make the behavior of kbuild match the
documented intent of _shipped files. Technically it is not needed,
its an attempt to raises the barrier a bit for including actual
binary blobs.
thx!
hofrat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-02 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-02 9:16 [PATCH 4/5] limit _shipped to c h and S files Nicholas Mc Guire
2014-12-02 10:19 ` Michal Marek
2014-12-02 10:32 ` Nicholas Mc Guire [this message]
2014-12-02 11:49 ` Michal Marek
2014-12-02 13:27 ` Nicholas Mc Guire
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