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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: linus.walleij@linaro.org,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	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: Zero-length ARM headers in git HEAD
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:50:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EAB0772.40404@garzik.org> (raw)

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.

As a result, git sequences such as "make distclean ; git checkout 
master" may fail, because several files are present in the index but not 
on disk, making it appear as if modifications have been made:

	$ git checkout master
	D	arch/arm/mach-lpc32xx/include/mach/gpio.h
	D	arch/arm/mach-tegra/include/mach/gpio.h
	D	arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/gpio.h

An update, either (a) making these files non-zero length or (b) deleting 
the files in git would be appreciated.  Reading the commit descriptions, 
it appears (a) is the correct path?

	Jeff




             reply	other threads:[~2011-10-28 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-28 19:50 Jeff Garzik [this message]
2011-10-28 20:09 ` Zero-length ARM headers in git HEAD Linus Walleij
2011-10-28 20:37 ` Russell King

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