Re: [GIT PULL] rv: Fixes for 7.3

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2026 at 11:48, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   The rvgen kunit command generates .bak backup files and these are
>   checked in for selftests as "golden" files for make check.

What?

What broken tool checks in generated files?

I've pulled this, but it sounds entirely insane to have checked in
that garbage file in

    tools/verification/rvgen/tests/golden/test_bak_kunit/test_bak_kunit_kunit.c.old

and you should stop doing that.

I'm very tempted to just do "git rm -rf
tools/verification/rvgen/tests/golden/" sicne these all seem to be
generated.

Having generated files around is *so* not what the kernel source tree is for.

Maybe the whole rvgen tree needs to be taken out of the kernel tree.

           Linus