Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:22:41 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1 |
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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
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