Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932438AbWAQVzA (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:55:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932440AbWAQVzA (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:55:00 -0500 Received: from customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony7.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.128]:22299 "EHLO customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony7.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932438AbWAQVy7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:54:59 -0500 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Message-ID: <43CD67AE.9030501@eyal.emu.id.au> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:54:54 +1100 From: Eyal Lebedinsky Organization: Eyal at Home User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1 References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 909 Lines: 25 Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, it's two weeks since 2.6.15, and the merge window is closed. I am looking at a problem where the build seems to remove /dev/null, which is then created as a regular file (naturally). This did not happen before. # ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Jan 18 08:42 /dev/null # make distclean CLEAN scripts/basic CLEAN scripts/kconfig CLEAN include/config CLEAN .config .config.old include/asm include/linux/autoconf.h include/linux/version.h .kernelrelease # ls -l /dev/null -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 47 Jan 18 08:42 /dev/null -- Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au) attach .zip as .dat - 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/