Re: [PATCH] uml: remove elf.h

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue May 17 2005 - 16:51:06 EST




On Tue, 17 May 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
>
> Perhaps some artificial timestamp could help to the file
> removal heuristic in GNU patch. Or passing it -E, but that will
> obviously do the wrong thing to any other zero-sized files.

-E is always correct for the kernel, since zero-length files aren't really
supposed to exist anyway, and "make distclean" has always removed them.

Linus
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