On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:32:14 -0700 (PDT) Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:06:43 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > > > After merging the akpm tree, linux-next builds (powerpc allmodconfig) > > > fail like this: > > > > I can't get powerpc to build at all at present: > > > > CHK include/config/kernel.release > > CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h > > CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h > > CC arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.s > > In file included from include/linux/vtime.h:6, > > from include/linux/hardirq.h:7, > > from include/linux/memcontrol.h:24, > > from include/linux/swap.h:8, > > from include/linux/suspend.h:4, > > from arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c:24: > > arch/powerpc/include/generated/asm/vtime.h:1:31: error: asm-generic/vtime.h: No such file or directory > > That caught me too: include/asm-generic/vtime.h is a patch-unfriendly > 0-length file in the git tree; hm, this? From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: include/asm-generic/vtime.h: avoid zero-length file patch(1) can't handle zero-length files - it appears to simply not create the file, so my powerpc build fails. Put something in here to make life easier. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/asm-generic/vtime.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN /dev/null include/asm-generic/vtime.h --- /dev/null +++ a/include/asm-generic/vtime.h @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +/* no content, but patch(1) dislikes empty files */ _ > I wonder what use it's supposed to have. Frederic, can you please confirm that include/asm-generic/vtime.h is supposed to be empty? > (And I'm not very keen on the growing trend for symlinks in the git tree.) ooh, that explains why I lost my arch/microblaze/boot/dts/system.dts. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
