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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Fix creation of include2/asm symlink
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At Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:37:14 +0200,
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:03:51AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:49:54 +0200,
> > Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 03:45:58PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > > The directory include2/asm can point wrongly to a non-existing
> > > > directory on architectures that have moved include/asm under arch/*.
> > > > 
> > > > This patch fixes it by checking firstly whether arch/*/include/asm is
> > > > available.
> > > 
> > > Hi Takashi.
> > > 
> > > I understand why you try to avoid include2/asm as it is not pretty.
> > > And I had a similar patch once - but I dropped it as the symlink do
> > > not harm and it will anyway be gone when the remaining architectures
> > > has shifted to use arch/$ARCH/include/...
> > > 
> > > So I will not apply it.
> > 
> > Hm, OK.  Originally I fixed it because our build system has a sanity
> > check against bogus symlinks and refused to package the latest kernel.
> > If you don't want to put it in, we can keep it locally, of course.
> > But, a bogus symlink is definitely not pretty...
> 
> It will go away as soon as all architextures are moved to use arch/$ARCH/include

Yes, if it's removed, then that's fine, of course.
But I wonder whether this will be finished during 2.6.27...?


thanks,

Takashi