Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758878AbYJXXQX (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:16:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758467AbYJXXPk (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:15:40 -0400 Received: from pqueueb.post.tele.dk ([193.162.153.10]:38204 "EHLO pqueueb.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755266AbYJXXPj (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:15:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:22:41 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alistair John Strachan , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1 Message-ID: <20081024192241.GA17080@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <200810241224.38541.alistair@devzero.co.uk> <200810241345.04966.rjw@sisk.pl> <200810241352.45745.alistair@devzero.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1200 Lines: 27 On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:17:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > You can use "git clean -dfx" to force git to remove ignored files too. And > "make distclean" should have done it too. I just checked and make mrproper / make distclean deletes the symlink as expected. > Now, _another_ part (and arguably the really core reason) of this problem > is that our Makefile rules for the asm include directory is weak and > unreliable in the presense of already-existing unexpected entries. > > And it has caused problems before. For example, if you somehow made the > symlink not be a symlink at all (by using "cp -LR" for example), or a > symlink pointing to another architecture (changing architecture builds in > the same tree without doing a "make clean" in between), you historically > got really odd results. We do not cover the "asm symlink became a dir" problem. But when all archs has moved headers it is anyway implicitly covered. Sam -- 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/