On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > That's created at build time. But I don't see anywhere in a freshly > cloned repo or fresh untar of the linux tarball, where there exists any > symbolic links.
There are none. Symlinks embedded in the source tree tend to be hard to maintain: you can traditionally not send patches to add/change/move/remove them, and not everybody can even import them at all (ie some people have been so damaged by CVS that they maintain their kernels in it - I'm trying my best to be a humanitarian and rid the world of the scourge that is CVS, but I'm not sure I can undo the untold mental damage wrought by it over decades of quiet suffering). With git, you can track symlinks and send them as patches, but we've not really had a huge reason to do so. They are easy enough to generate from Makefiles if required, and quite often you don't really need to anyway (ie the "symlink" is often just a make rule, like the SRCDIR := ../../../i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq line I quoted earlier). So I'd rather not even start using symlinks unless there is some really good reason. We can continue to just use Makefiles. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/