From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754274Ab2GXNT3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:19:29 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:51159 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754109Ab2GXNT1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:19:27 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: References: <20120720215636.14854.41208.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> To: Michael Kerrisk Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@kernel.org, davej@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] UAPI header file split Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:19:12 +0100 Message-ID: <28702.1343135952@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Kerrisk wrote: > In the uapi-split branch, there are now 44 empty Kbuild files. Was > that intended? Or, should these files rather be removed by your > patches? To be removed by a later patch, I think. Getting rid of some of them isn't trivial - ones in arch/x/include/asm/Kbuild for example - because that Kbuild is referenced by common code IIRC as a function of the arch. David