From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:42:44 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] uml: remove elf.h Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20050517142113.59097a3d.akpm@osdl.org> On Tue, 17 May 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > And I bet that when Linus releases patch-2.6.12-rc5.gz and patch-2.6.12.gz, > they will have the same construct. AFAICT, the patch-based people will > need to download a full new tarball to get rid of this dang file. Or just run "make distclean" once. > It all wouldn't really matter much, except apparently the mere presence of > this file breaks the UML build. > > Frazzle. Paolo, I'm almost wondering if we should change that test to also > check for a zero-length file. How many people are affected? The file _is_ gone in the git archives, and in fact I wonder if it was ever there, but I didn't bother to check. Linus