Re: [PATCH] uml: remove elf.h

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue May 17 2005 - 16:44:17 EST




On Tue, 17 May 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> And I bet that when Linus releases patch-2.6.12-rc5.gz and patch-2.6.12.gz,
> they will have the same construct. AFAICT, the patch-based people will
> need to download a full new tarball to get rid of this dang file.

Or just run "make distclean" once.

> It all wouldn't really matter much, except apparently the mere presence of
> this file breaks the UML build.
>
> Frazzle. Paolo, I'm almost wondering if we should change that test to also
> check for a zero-length file.

How many people are affected? The file _is_ gone in the git archives, and
in fact I wonder if it was ever there, but I didn't bother to check.

Linus
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