Re: [PATCH] .gitignore: ignore smatch generated files

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Tue May 02 2023 - 11:26:53 EST


On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 11:55:17AM +0900, Brandon Ross Pollack wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 8:20 PM Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for this. To be honest, I hadn't remembered that Smatch
> > still generates trinity_smatch.[ch]. I would prefer to just delete that
> > stuff. Another idea is maybe Smatch could put everything in a
> > smatch/ directory? That feels like maybe it would be nicer?
>
> Sure, that'd be great as well. I'm pretty sure that smatch outputs
> these files from whatever directory you run from, that's why I did the
> overall pattern rather than a path pattern.
>
> Should we just patch smatch to not output trinity* files and output to
> a directory and change this patch to mask out the directory?

I've deleted the trinity stuff. Let's just apply the rest as-is.

regards,
dan carpenter