Hi Masahiro. > > In Linux build system convention, pre-generated files are version- > > controlled with a "_shipped" suffix. During the kernel building, > > they are simply shipped (copied) removing the suffix. > > > > From users' point of view, this approach can reduce external tool > > dependency for the kernel build, > > > > From developers point of view, it is tedious to manually regenerate > > such artifacts. In fact, we see several patches to regenerate > > _shipped files. They are noise commits. ... Nice cleanup we should have does years ago. When we introduced this we did this to minimize the time it took to configure a clean kernel - as one of the reasons. Since then the average computer has been significantly faster so the time to run flex/bison is not an issue anymore. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
