Re: [linuxsh-dev] scripts/treelink.sh

[Paul M. <le...@li...>]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 06:39:57PM +0900, SUGIOKA Toshinobu wrote:
> Currently, after scripts/treelink.sh has done, we see many unnecessary files in
> arch/sh/kernel and include/asm-sh.
> 
The only reason some of these files are not needed are because they're
left over garbage in mainline, once this stuff is synced back up,
we can remove a lot of files from the drop-in tree.

The purpose of the drop-in tree in the first place was to only include
relevant files that needed local modification in order to be of use. If
most of this stuff _already_ sits in mainline, then there's no need to
track those files in the drop-in tree anymore. If someone needs to patch
something on the other hand, then those files can be moved backed in,
patched, and so forth.

Especially since the drop-in tree already requires that it is applied
against a stock kernel version, we don't lose out on anything here.

> This is because treelink.sh can not remove any files in stock kernel.
> 
Again, most of these useless files will be removed from mainline, so
there's nothing to worry about here.