Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for Linux 7.1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2026 at 09:45, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git tags/for-linus

Bah. Having been busy just merging, I didn't notice until now that
this pull caused the kernel build to leave a strange turd in the
filesystem that "git status" then complains about.

I fixed the git complaint the obvious way - by just adding a
.gitignore file for this - but honestly, that code is just *silly*.

The code to autogenerate that file in the Makefile is LARGER THAN THE
FILE ITSELF.

That's not "autogenerated" content. That's just pointless. Having a
makefile rule that just uses "echo" to create the file is pointless
indirection - when you could just have added the file, and doing so
would have made not only the build system saner, it would make it much
easier to edit it if/when new situations arrive.

This needs cleaning up.

           Linus