On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 01:10:04AM +0100, Lexi Winter wrote:
> Brooks Davis:
> > This is more or less standard practice for generated files.  These
> > commits are of basically no interest.
> 
> to be clear, i'm certainly not expecting a detailed commit message for
> things like this.  my only concern is that when viewing the commit log
> for all of src/, or for src/sys/ or whatever, they look like this:
> 
> 8e4b8e9d807aa379d2a1c3aaac2537ba7d6bf0bf LinuxKPI: add kvmemdup()
> 69b6c4a6ec6654978628ccd48edce46f00ac3e96 LinuxKPI: 802.11: fix 
> for_each_sta_active_link()
> 408957613bc065c4444812c3ae276ace03697ebd Regen
> 6b7e4254a29e3228a7273622556b60416e300509 capsicum: allow rfork(2) in 
> capability mode
> c80c104cbd52db994c0f2757bd1c6d014744022c glabel.8: Describe cases related to 
> permissions / existing mounts
> 
> the other commits make it clear what they touch (LinuxKPI, capsicum,
> ...) so i can ignore those if that's not what i'm looking for, but
> 'Regen' is not very informative there.  if it just included the filename
> it would immediately be much more helpful.

It should probably contains "sysent: ".  It's pretty rare that one file
is touched (usually that's an error).

-- Brooks

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