From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:44:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uml: remove elf.h
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505171443180.18337@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050517213447.GN7136@pasky.ji.cz>



On Tue, 17 May 2005, Petr Baudis wrote:
>
> Perhaps some artificial timestamp could help to the file
> removal heuristic in GNU patch. Or passing it -E, but that will
> obviously do the wrong thing to any other zero-sized files.

-E is always correct for the kernel, since zero-length files aren't really 
supposed to exist anyway, and "make distclean" has always removed them.

		Linus