RE: [PATCH] crypto: vmx - Ignore generated files

From: David Laight
Date: Wed Jul 20 2016 - 09:17:11 EST


From: Paulo Flabiano Smorigo
> Sent: 19 July 2016 14:36
> Ignore assembly files generated by the perl script.
...
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/vmx/.gitignore b/drivers/crypto/vmx/.gitignore
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..af4a7ce
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/.gitignore
> @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> +aesp8-ppc.S
> +ghashp8-ppc.S

Shouldn't the generated files be written to the object tree?

I would hope the linux kernel builds from a readonly source tree.

David