Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262003AbVEQVpp (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 17:45:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261986AbVEQVpo (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 17:45:44 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:6062 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261953AbVEQVmv (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 17:42:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:44:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Petr Baudis cc: Andrew Morton , git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso" Subject: Re: [PATCH] uml: remove elf.h In-Reply-To: <20050517213447.GN7136@pasky.ji.cz> Message-ID: References: <200505171704.j4HH4Ne8002532@hera.kernel.org> <20050517142113.59097a3d.akpm@osdl.org> <20050517213447.GN7136@pasky.ji.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 633 Lines: 17 On Tue, 17 May 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > Perhaps some artificial timestamp could help to the file > removal heuristic in GNU patch. Or passing it -E, but that will > obviously do the wrong thing to any other zero-sized files. -E is always correct for the kernel, since zero-length files aren't really supposed to exist anyway, and "make distclean" has always removed them. Linus - 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/