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From: geert@linux-m68k.org (Geert Uytterhoeven)
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:23:21 +0100
Subject: [patch 2/7] dt: dtb version: document chosen/dtb-info node binding
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On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why would you _ever_ need an absolute path!?
>
> The absolute path tells you which source repository contained the source.

Really? Usually it's just gonna be <something>/linux-2.6...

IMHO it leaks information (the <something>) you don't want to be in final
build, like login names and file server names.
We already have way to many uses of __FILE__ in the kernel source tree.
Unfortunately there's no replacement macro with just the relative path,
against the topdir of the source tree.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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