Re: PATCH one line: "vmlinux*.lds*" is in Documentation/dontdiff

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Fri Mar 28 2008 - 14:57:38 EST


On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 05:20:07PM +0100, Etienne Lorrain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please can you remove vmlinux*.lds* of Documentation/dontdiff from linux-2.6.24-rc7,
> because a command like:
> diff -urN -X linux-2.6.24/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.24 linux-2.6.24-gujin
> does not include modifications of file "arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S".
>
> Note also that the two files vmlinux_32.lds.S and vmlinux_64.lds.S have few lines
> which begin by "space space tab", but I do not want to start a flamewar in between
> vi, emacs and this other text editor...
Both these files are in a need for a consistency cleanup.
Have done so a few times but then lost the patch again.

Other like for example sparc64 have had such a cleanup.

Sam
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