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Please send a patch to set .gitignore to handle Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version

DISCUSSION Greg KH 2 participants 3 messages May 14, 2012

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I'm tired of seeing Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version show up in 'git status' as an untracked file, care to please fix it up?

But really, shouldn't binary files like this to into tools/ instead of Documentation?

thanks,

greg k-h

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I'm tired of seeing Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version show up in 'git status' as an untracked file, care to please fix it up?

Oh right I forgot the .gitignore

Maybe we can add some CONFIG_ option to avoid unconditional compilation of the example code, what do you think?

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But really, shouldn't binary files like this to into tools/ instead of Documentation?

I'm not sure it is really a tool it just really example code.

There are other examples of that e.g. Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test and some more

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Tomas

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I'm tired of seeing Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei-amt-version show up in 'git status' as an untracked file, care to please fix it up?

Oh right I forgot the .gitignore

Maybe we can add some CONFIG_ option to avoid unconditional compilation of the example code, what do you think?

Yes, that might be good.

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But really, shouldn't binary files like this to into tools/ instead of Documentation?

I'm not sure it is really a tool it just really example code.

There are other examples of that e.g. Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test and some more

tools/ is newer than those files, and how are they generated, by CONFIG options, or something else?

thanks,

greg k-h