From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267364AbUBSQpa (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:45:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267375AbUBSQp3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:45:29 -0500 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:10996 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267364AbUBSQp2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:45:28 -0500 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: root@chaos.analogic.com, Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove MAKEDEV scripts from scripts/ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:51:16 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Linux kernel References: <20040219161306.GA30620@lst.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402191751.16652.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 19 of February 2004 17:25, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > makedev is a userland issue, and the distros already take care of ide > > and sound. scripts/ OTOH is supposed to hold utils needed for building > > the kernel tree which the above certainly aren't. > > If that's true, i.e., /scripts contains _only_ utilities for building > the kernel tree, then you make another directory to contain MAKEDEV.ide. > You don't simply delete it because you don't want it there. This > script substitutes for, and works in conjunction with a primary source > of documentation, ../Documentation/ide.txt Thanks, for catching this! Christoph, please remove MAKEDEV.ide references from Documentation/ide.txt 8). --bart