From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760218Ab3CZUSb (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:18:31 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:51165 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753725Ab3CZUSa (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:18:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:18:28 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: David Howells Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, arnd@arndb.de, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] UAPI: Remove empty Kbuild files Message-Id: <20130326131828.209aff73e38d3273d078bb2e@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130326174853.10144.36253.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> References: <20130326174853.10144.36253.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:48:53 +0000 David Howells wrote: > Remove empty Kbuild files as they cause problems with the patch program which > removes files that become empty. > > Should I also remove include/Kbuild as that now does nothing? Or should it be > left as an anchor just in case we want it in future? I think that if the build system created it, a `make clean' or `make mproper' should rub it out again. Ideally a `make mrproper' will give you a tree which is identical to a freshly-untarred kernel.org tarball (yes?). Which reminds me of my email which you're still hiding from ;) Shouldn't a `make mrproper' undo the effects of `make headers_install' by wiping ./usr/include/?