Re: [PATCH] remove MAKEDEV scripts from scripts/

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>]

On Thursday 19 of February 2004 17:51, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 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).

Ugh, there are much more references to MAKEDEV in Documentation/ dir.