This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nios2: add FORCE for vmlinuz.gz 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: nios2-add-force-for-vmlinuz.gz.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. commit a097133cd188aa0869ae980b11c6f29d9dba62fb Author: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 23 19:20:53 2022 -0800 nios2: add FORCE for vmlinuz.gz [ Upstream commit 869e4ae4cd2a23d625aaa14ae62dbebf768cb77d ] Add FORCE to placate a warning from make: arch/nios2/boot/Makefile:24: FORCE prerequisite is missing Fixes: 2fc8483fdcde ("nios2: Build infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/nios2/boot/Makefile b/arch/nios2/boot/Makefile index c899876320df..76dce0a438a6 100644 --- a/arch/nios2/boot/Makefile +++ b/arch/nios2/boot/Makefile @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ $(obj)/vmlinux.bin: vmlinux FORCE $(obj)/vmlinux.gz: $(obj)/vmlinux.bin FORCE $(call if_changed,gzip) -$(obj)/vmImage: $(obj)/vmlinux.gz +$(obj)/vmImage: $(obj)/vmlinux.gz FORCE $(call if_changed,uimage) @$(kecho) 'Kernel: $@ is ready'