Re: [PATCH] scripts/kernel-doc: remove an obscure logic from kernel-doc

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> writes:

> Kernel-doc has an obscure logic that uses an external file
> to map files via a .tmp_filelist.txt file stored at the current
> directory. The rationale for such code predates git time,
> as it was added on Kernel v2.4.5.5, with the following description:
>
> 	# 26/05/2001 -         Support for separate source and object trees.
> 	#              Return error code.
> 	#              Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
>
> from commit 396a6123577d ("v2.4.5.4 -> v2.4.5.5") at the historic
> tree:
> 	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/
>
> Support for separate source and object trees is now done on a different
> way via make O=<object>.
>
> There's no logic to create such file, so it sounds to me that this is
> just dead code.
>
> So, drop it.
>
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
> ---
>  scripts/kernel-doc | 19 +------------------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 deletions(-)

Weird ... I went and looked, and can't find anything that ever created
that tmp_filelist.txt file; I wonder if this code ever did anything?

Don't put that functionality into the Python version :)

Applied, thanks.

jon