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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.28-rc1
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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