Please pull ppc64-2.6.git

Stephen Rothwell sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Sat Sep 10 11:15:47 EST 2005


From: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> 
> Linus Torvalds writes:
> 
> > Btw, I can't even begin to describe how much I hate the "include3" 
> > directory crap that was introduced recently.
> > 
> > Not only is it incredibly ugly, it totally breaks filename completion, 
> > since doing a "grep inc<tab>li<tab>" no longer completes properly to 
> > "include/linux/" like it should, and like God intended it to. Instead, it 
> > beeps at you, and generates a crappy "includeli" completion.
> 
> Well, we already had an include2 directory that gets created if you
> compile with a separate object tree, so Stephen was just following
> that precedent.

I can see Linus's point, though.  I guess it never affected me because
I don't build in my work tree.

> > If we can't get things to use <asm-ppc/xyzzy.h>, then can we at least move
> > that frigging ugly directory somewhere else? Instead of using "include3"  
> > (what a totally horrible name - that should already have told somebody
> > that it wasn't a good idea), why not use arch/$(ARCH)/include" instead?
> 
> I guess that would work too... Stephen?

I'll see if I can get something like arch/$(ARCH)/include to work.

Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell



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