On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, Michal Marek wrote:

> Dne 2.12.2014 v 10:16 Nicholas Mc Guire napsal(a):
> > 
> > limit _shipped to c h and S files
> > 
> > _shipped targets are intended for generated source files which should
> > not permit .o binary blobs which is currently the case. This patch
> > simply restricts _shipped targets to .c, .h and .S files.
> 
> 
> IMO this just adds lines of code without any obvious advantage. The
> other patches in the series are fine.
>

The idea simply was to make the behavior of kbuild match the
documented intent of _shipped files. Technically it is not needed,
its an attempt to raises the barrier a bit for including actual
binary blobs. 

thx!
hofrat
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