it's known good in 2.6.25, borked in 2.6.31. i didn't track down the kernel version number where the offending commit showed up. anyway, here's my SOB: Signed-off-by: Caveh Jalali <ecaveh@xxxxxxxxx> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Caveh Jalali <ecaveh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > in 2.6.31, it is no longer possible to build kernel modules for some platforms > (the ones that need include2) outside the kernel src tree if the > src tree was built using O= to specify an alternate directory for the > build output. > > i think this broke with the following commit: > > commit b8b572e1015f81b4e748417be2629dfe51ab99f9 > Author: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri Aug 1 15:20:30 2008 +1000 > > powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asm > > > when the platform specific include directories were shuffled around > without updating the > top level Makefile. however, i think this FAIL is generic, and not > limited to powerpc. > here's a patch to the top level Makefile to teach it about the shuffled files: > > > --- /local/caveh/linux/linux-2.6.31/Makefile 2009-09-09 > 15:13:59.000000000 -0700 > +++ Makefile 2009-09-16 12:23:05.000000000 -0700 > @@ -958,9 +958,9 @@ ifneq ($(KBUILD_SRC),) > echo " in the '$(srctree)' directory.";\ > /bin/false; \ > fi; > - $(Q)if [ ! -d include2 ]; then \ > - mkdir -p include2; \ > - ln -fsn $(srctree)/include/asm-$(SRCARCH) include2/asm; \ > + $(Q)if [ ! -d include2 ]; then \ > + mkdir -p include2; \ > + ln -fsn $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/asm include2/asm; \ > fi > endif > -- 00c http://www.boincstats.com/signature/user_870433_project5.gif -- 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
