Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] kbuild: make W=1 warn files that are tracked but ignored by git

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Jan 27 2023 - 09:50:47 EST


On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 04:41:37PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 11:31:07PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 10:25 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 04:43:10PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > > > The top .gitignore comments about how to detect files breaking
> > > > .gitignore rules, but people rarely care about it.
> > > >
> > > > Add a new W=1 warning to detect files that are tracked but ignored by
> > > > git. If git is not installed or the source tree is not tracked by git
> > > > at all, this script does not print anything.
> > > >
> > > > Running it on v6.2-rc1 detected the following:
> > >
> > > Since patch was published there is no sign it was ever meet Linux Next.
> > > What's the plan?
> >
> > Oh?
>
> Sorry, my mistake. I need to understand why these patches do not fix
> the issue I have.

OK, after carefully reading the commit message it's actually the culprit of
the warnings I have.

So, it seems we need to wait maintainers / developers of the respective code
to go and fix this. Is it your intention?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko