From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755309AbaI3Hi6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2014 03:38:58 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:36774 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750988AbaI3Hi5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2014 03:38:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 00:38:29 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Joe Perches Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire , Randy Dunlap , Michael Elizabeth Chastain , Kai Germaschewski , Sam Ravnborg , Jan Engelhardt , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] description and restrictions of _shipped Message-ID: <20140930073829.GA32613@infradead.org> References: <20140928175513.GA5517@opentech.at> <1411928181.21874.19.camel@joe-AO725> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1411928181.21874.19.camel@joe-AO725> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:16:21AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > *_shipped files are not just binary. > > Perhaps these are better described as "auto-generated" files. The use case for them is to ship generated files that require tools we don't want to require for "just" a kernel build. The only exception is ./drivers/net/wan/wanxlfw.inc_shipped, which really should use the firmware loader instead, or given that the driver has seen no work since git history probably just be removed. So please remove the bullshit language that seems to imply allowing to ship binaries code, and resend the patch.