Am 19.09.2013 15:39, schrieb Ralf Baechle: > The original patch that introduced the symlink with the \n is kernel > commit 3b29aa5ba204c62b3ec8f9f5b1ebd6e5d74f75d3 and is archived in > patchwork at http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5745/ The patch > file contains a \n at the end - but one would expect that from a > patch file that has been transfered via email, so I'm not sure how this > is supposed to work with emailed patches?!? The mbox file I downloaded from this link looks like this: arch/mips/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 120000 arch/mips/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/.../include/dt-bindings b/.../include/dt-bindings new file mode 120000 index 0000000..08c00e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/mips/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +../../../../../include/dt-bindings but it should look like this: arch/mips/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 120000 arch/mips/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings diff --git a/.../include/dt-bindings b/.../include/dt-bindings new file mode 120000 index 0000000..08c00e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/mips/boot/dts/include/dt-bindings @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +../../../../../include/dt-bindings \ No newline at end of file Whoever or whatever moved the '\ No newline at end of file' line above the patch text is to blame. -- Hannes -- 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