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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:58:18 +0800
From: Amerigo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Move generated files to include/generated
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:10:40PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>In 2.6.30 we introduced support for adding generated
>files to a dedicated directory named "include/generated".
>


Personally, I don't like this, I hate to see
#include <generated/foo.h>
.

>This had a number of benefits:
>
>  - avoid mixing generated and normal files

I don't think this is an advantage...


>  - allow us to finally kill the asm symlink


This makes sense, but it looks like only when 'make O=xxx',
no?


>  - simpler .gitignore rules
>  - simpler list of mrproper files

Neither these two.

The benifits we get is little, I think.

Thanks.