Re: 2.6.17-mm1

[Andrew Morton]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:27:06 +0200
Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 02:32:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:39:01 -0700
> > "Keith Mannthey" <kmannth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Andrew,
> > >   When I make mrproper to clean the kernel tree with the -mm trees (at
> > > least the last few releases) I end up having to remove
> > > /include/linux/dwarf2-defs.h myself.  This file is generated at build
> > > time but mrproper isn't cleaning it up.   This file is always present
> > > in a tree that has been built but not in the origninal tree so a diff
> > > of the tree picks it up.
> > > 
> > > Is this expected?
> > > 
> > 
> > No, it's not expected.  That's due to the kgdb patches.
> > 
> > Sam, what should we be doing here?
> 
> The dwarf2-defs.h file is similar to the asm-offsets.h file. We need it
> before starting to build the kernel.
> So the only same solution would be to move it all to the Kbuild file in
> the top-level directory. Then we should also let same Kbuild file take
> care of cleaning up.
> 
> I noticed that kgdb patches was dropped in -mm this time.
> Shall I try to cook up a patch next time you include kgdb?
> 

I wouldn't bother, really - we have bigger fish to fry.

I cc'ed Tom, who might care to take a look at it sometime.
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