Re: [PATCH] description and restrictions of _shipped

2014-09-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:16:21AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > *_shipped files are not just binary. > > Perhaps these are better described as "auto-generated" files. The use case for them is to ship generated files that require tools we don't want to require for "just" a kernel build. The only e

Re: [PATCH] description and restrictions of _shipped

2014-09-28 Thread Joe Perches
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 o

[PATCH] description and restrictions of _shipped

2014-09-28 Thread Nicholas Mc Guire
This patch adds a section on handling of _shipped files and their limitations. 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. This patch is against 3.17.0-rc6 Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc