Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:53:45 -0500 (CDT) | From | Kai Germaschewski <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Generated files destruction |
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Rusty Russell wrote:
> I would like to start migrating all build-generated files to > names matching "generated*" or ".generated*", esp. those which look > like source files. This is mainly for readability and for simplicity > when diffing built kernel trees. I'll be encouraging various > maintainers who generate (.c, .h and .s) files which are not meant to > be shipped with the kernel source to migrate, in my copious free > time...
I think the proper solution here is actually separate obj/src dirs, instead of special names. It's actually quite easy to get that implemented in the current kbuild, I just didn't find the time for proper testing yet. I'll have a patch ready for testing soon, though.
-Kai
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