>Does it fix anything or is it just a clean-up? >I see it as a cleanup only and thus not -rc material. It's just an inconvenience it fixes in .25.x (unless you pushed your init.o exclusion patch to -stable already), and perhaps more a theoretical issue in .26, but anyway (and irrespective of that for consistency I'd think it should be done the same way in .25.x and .26). Jan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html