Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:51:44 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 - Take 2 |
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > That's created at build time. But I don't see anywhere in a freshly > cloned repo or fresh untar of the linux tarball, where there exists any > symbolic links.
There are none.
Symlinks embedded in the source tree tend to be hard to maintain: you can traditionally not send patches to add/change/move/remove them, and not everybody can even import them at all (ie some people have been so damaged by CVS that they maintain their kernels in it - I'm trying my best to be a humanitarian and rid the world of the scourge that is CVS, but I'm not sure I can undo the untold mental damage wrought by it over decades of quiet suffering).
With git, you can track symlinks and send them as patches, but we've not really had a huge reason to do so. They are easy enough to generate from Makefiles if required, and quite often you don't really need to anyway (ie the "symlink" is often just a make rule, like the
SRCDIR := ../../../i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq
line I quoted earlier).
So I'd rather not even start using symlinks unless there is some really good reason. We can continue to just use Makefiles.
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