Re: [GIT PULL] x86/entry for 7.0-rc1

[H. Peter Anvin]

On February 10, 2026 8:39:52 PM PST, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 at 20:24, Linus Torvalds
><torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> So .gitignore files should only add new names, not remove old names.
>>
>> Sure, _eventually_ the stale entries can be removed, but not in some
>> kind of immediate short timeframe.
>
>Side note: it might be worth thinking about naming generated files
>very explicitly.
>
>Out generated headers go into a subdirectory of their own, which
>solves the problem for them. But that's inconvenient when you want to
>have just a random one-off thing.
>
>Maybe it would be good to just make those files *very* explicit, and
>name them something very clearly different. Like always using the
>filename pattern 'xyz.generated.[ch]' or something like that.
>
>Then we could just add the '*.generated.[ch]' pattern to the top-level
>.gitignore and not have to worry about at least those files.
>
>This is not a huge issue, and most releases don't have this at all.
>
>But it just so happens that not having seen this for a good long
>while, the current merge window has now had two very different "people
>don't ignore generated files properly".
>
>Don't people use 'git status' (or look at the status that gets printed
>out by a number of other git commands)?
>
>I suspect one issue is that people who *know* they moved the file may
>think "oh, I moved that file, I'll just remove that left-over turd
>too". So the people who move files aren't confused and don't think
>it's a big deal.
>
>But they don't realize that for other people - the people who *didn't*
>move the file and have no idea what that file is - are much more
>likely to be confused and go "Why did that file suddenly show up".
>
>Because those other people may not even realize that it's a generated
>file because they were never really aware of it before.
>
>              Linus

Arguably the best thing would be to stop building in the source directory at all...