On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 19:55 +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: > This patch adds a section on handling of _shipped files > and their limitations.
Good idea but: > While it is not actually the right place to rant about binary > modules, it probably would also be bad not to clearly state that > this option is not preferred. [] > diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt > b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt [] > @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ This document describes the Linux kernel Makefiles. > --- 3.10 Special Rules > --- 3.11 $(CC) support functions > --- 3.12 $(LD) support functions > + --- 3.13 _shipped binary blobs *_shipped files are not just binary. Perhaps these are better described as "auto-generated" files. The _shipped files in drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/ should probably just be renamed. $ git ls-files -- "*_shipped" arch/arm/crypto/aesbs-core.S_shipped arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spu_restore_dump.h_shipped arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spu_save_dump.h_shipped drivers/net/wan/wanxlfw.inc_shipped drivers/scsi/53c700_d.h_shipped drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_reg.h_shipped drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_reg_print.c_shipped drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_seq.h_shipped drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_reg.h_shipped drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_reg_print.c_shipped drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_seq.h_shipped drivers/tty/vt/defkeymap.c_shipped scripts/dtc/dtc-lexer.lex.c_shipped scripts/dtc/dtc-parser.tab.c_shipped scripts/dtc/dtc-parser.tab.h_shipped scripts/genksyms/keywords.hash.c_shipped scripts/genksyms/lex.lex.c_shipped scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.c_shipped scripts/genksyms/parse.tab.h_shipped scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c_shipped scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c_shipped scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c_shipped -- 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/
