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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kbuild: Fix creation of include2/asm symlink
At Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:49:54 +0200,
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 03:45:58PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > The directory include2/asm can point wrongly to a non-existing
> > directory on architectures that have moved include/asm under arch/*.
> >
> > This patch fixes it by checking firstly whether arch/*/include/asm is
> > available.
>
> Hi Takashi.
>
> I understand why you try to avoid include2/asm as it is not pretty.
> And I had a similar patch once - but I dropped it as the symlink do
> not harm and it will anyway be gone when the remaining architectures
> has shifted to use arch/$ARCH/include/...
>
> So I will not apply it.

Hm, OK. Originally I fixed it because our build system has a sanity
check against bogus symlinks and refused to package the latest kernel.
If you don't want to put it in, we can keep it locally, of course.
But, a bogus symlink is definitely not pretty...


thanks,

Takashi


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