Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Kernel-doc has an obscure logic that uses an external file
> to map files via a .tmp_filelist.txt file stored at the current
> directory. The rationale for such code predates git time,
> as it was added on Kernel v2.4.5.5, with the following description:
>
> # 26/05/2001 - Support for separate source and object trees.
> # Return error code.
> # Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> from commit 396a6123577d ("v2.4.5.4 -> v2.4.5.5") at the historic
> tree:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/
>
> Support for separate source and object trees is now done on a different
> way via make O=<object>.
>
> There's no logic to create such file, so it sounds to me that this is
> just dead code.
>
> So, drop it.
>
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> scripts/kernel-doc | 19 +------------------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 deletions(-)
Weird ... I went and looked, and can't find anything that ever created
that tmp_filelist.txt file; I wonder if this code ever did anything?
Don't put that functionality into the Python version :)
Applied, thanks.
jon
