This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled alpha: merge build rules of division routines to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: alpha-merge-build-rules-of-division-routines.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e19a4e3f1bffe45b8e2ea67fcfb0c9c88278c4cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 16:42:15 +0900 Subject: alpha: merge build rules of division routines From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit e19a4e3f1bffe45b8e2ea67fcfb0c9c88278c4cc upstream. These four objects are generated by the same build rule, with different compile options. The build rules can be merged. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/alpha/lib/Makefile | 9 ++------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/arch/alpha/lib/Makefile +++ b/arch/alpha/lib/Makefile @@ -46,11 +46,6 @@ AFLAGS___remqu.o = -DREM AFLAGS___divlu.o = -DDIV -DINTSIZE AFLAGS___remlu.o = -DREM -DINTSIZE -$(obj)/__divqu.o: $(src)/$(ev6-y)divide.S - $(cmd_as_o_S) -$(obj)/__remqu.o: $(src)/$(ev6-y)divide.S - $(cmd_as_o_S) -$(obj)/__divlu.o: $(src)/$(ev6-y)divide.S - $(cmd_as_o_S) -$(obj)/__remlu.o: $(src)/$(ev6-y)divide.S +$(addprefix $(obj)/,__divqu.o __remqu.o __divlu.o __remlu.o): \ + $(src)/$(ev6-y)divide.S $(cmd_as_o_S) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/alpha-merge-build-rules-of-division-routines.patch queue-4.9/alpha-make-short-build-log-available-for-division-routines.patch queue-4.9/alpha-add-src-rather-than-obj-to-make-source-file-path.patch