This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tags: honor COMPILED_SOURCE with apart output directory to the 4.4-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: tags-honor-compiled_source-with-apart-output-directory.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Apr 10 10:31:53 CEST 2018 From: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 13:59:15 +0200 Subject: tags: honor COMPILED_SOURCE with apart output directory From: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit cbf52a3e6a8a92beec6e0c70abf4111cd8f8faf7 ] When the kernel is compiled with an "O=" argument, the object files are not in the source tree, but in the build tree. This patch fixes O= build by looking for object files in the build tree. Fixes: 923e02ecf3f8 ("scripts/tags.sh: Support compiled source") Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/tags.sh | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/scripts/tags.sh +++ b/scripts/tags.sh @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ all_compiled_sources() case "$i" in *.[cS]) j=${i/\.[cS]/\.o} + j="${j#$tree}" if [ -e $j ]; then echo $i fi Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx are queue-4.4/tags-honor-compiled_source-with-apart-output-directory.patch