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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] [PATCH] prepare-kernel: Only purge links from target
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
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On 01/09/2013 02:47 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:

> Only remove files from the target directory of patch_link if they are
> missing in Xenomai AND are actually symbolic links. This is required
> when merging Xenomai directories into non-empty kernel dirs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> ---
> 
> This is not required for the current patch workload but helps us in 2.6
> with integrating ftrace (we patch into include/trace/events there).
> Would reduce our queue length by one if this could be merged
> nevertheless.


Despite the fact that it is a one-liner, I do not understand what this
patch does, and I am not sure it is not going to break things.

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                                                                Gilles.