Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263406AbTIBBYd (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:24:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263413AbTIBBYd (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:24:33 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:27836 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263406AbTIBBYb (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:24:31 -0400 Message-ID: <3F53F142.5050909@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 21:24:18 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: Christoph Hellwig , Tigran Aivazian , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk Subject: Re: dontdiff for 2.6.0-test4 References: <20030901163958.A24464@infradead.org> <20030901162244.GA1041@mars.ravnborg.org> <3F537CDD.3040809@pobox.com> <20030901171806.GB1041@mars.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20030901171806.GB1041@mars.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 987 Lines: 32 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:07:41PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>dontdiff must know about many things that 'make mrproper' need not care >>about: >> >> files with ".bak" suffix >> files with "~" suffix >> BitKeeper, CVS, RCS, SCCS directories > > > make mrproper already cares about all those. > Fragments from top-level Makefile: I stand corrected :) However, I think it's a tangent: dontdiff is a file that's useful precisely because of the form its in. So, as something that's proven itself useful to a bunch of people, I definitely think it has a home somewhere in Documentation/* It need not be referenced in any way by kbuild; that's not a big deal. The two really serve different purposes. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/