On Tuesday, November 19, 2019 1:52:09 PM CET Zhengyuan Liu wrote: > From: liuzhengyuan <liuzhengyuan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > If we compile tools/acpi target in the top source directory, we'd get a > compilation error showing as bellow: > > # make tools/acpi > DESCEND power/acpi > DESCEND tools/acpidbg > CC tools/acpidbg/acpidbg.o > Assembler messages: > Fatal error: can't create /home/lzy/kernel-upstream/linux-linus-ubuntu/power\ > /acpi/tools/acpidbg/acpidbg.o: No such file or directory > ../../Makefile.rules:26: recipe for target '/home/lzy/kernel-upstream/linux-\ > linus-ubuntu/power/acpi/tools/acpidbg/acpidbg.o' failed > make[3]: *** [/home/lzy/kernel-upstream/linux-linus-ubuntu/power/acpi/tools/\ > acpidbg/acpidbg.o] Error 1 > Makefile:19: recipe for target 'acpidbg' failed > make[2]: *** [acpidbg] Error 2 > Makefile:54: recipe for target 'acpi' failed > make[1]: *** [acpi] Error 2 > Makefile:1607: recipe for target 'tools/acpi' failed > make: *** [tools/acpi] Error 2 > > Fixes: d5a4b1a540b ("tools/power/acpi: Remove direct kernel source include reference") > Signed-off-by: liuzhengyuan <liuzhengyuan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> You evidently could use the proper English spelling of your full name when sending the message, so what would be wrong with using it for the sign-off too? > --- > tools/power/acpi/Makefile.config | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/tools/power/acpi/Makefile.config b/tools/power/acpi/Makefile.config > index 0111d24..54a2857 100644 > --- a/tools/power/acpi/Makefile.config > +++ b/tools/power/acpi/Makefile.config > @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ include $(srctree)/../../scripts/Makefile.include > > OUTPUT=$(srctree)/ > ifeq ("$(origin O)", "command line") > - OUTPUT := $(O)/power/acpi/ > + OUTPUT := $(O)/tools/power/acpi/ > endif > #$(info Determined 'OUTPUT' to be $(OUTPUT)) > >