The patch titled Subject: lib/gen_crc64table.c: don't depend on linux headers being installed has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is lib-dont-depend-on-linux-headers-being-installed.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/lib-dont-depend-on-linux-headers-being-installed.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lib-dont-depend-on-linux-headers-being-installed.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: NeilBrown <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: lib/gen_crc64table.c: don't depend on linux headers being installed gen_crc64table requires linux include files to be installed in /usr/include/linux. This is a new requrement so hosts that could previously build the kernel, now cannot. gen_crc64table makes this requirement by including <linux/swab.h>, but nothing from that header is actually used. So remove the #include, so that the linux headers no longer need to be installed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87y3899gzi.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: feba04fd2cf8 ("lib: add crc64 calculation routines") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/lib/gen_crc64table.c~lib-dont-depend-on-linux-headers-being-installed +++ a/lib/gen_crc64table.c @@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ #include <inttypes.h> #include <stdio.h> -#include <linux/swab.h> - #define CRC64_ECMA182_POLY 0x42F0E1EBA9EA3693ULL static uint64_t crc64_table[256] = {0}; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from neil@xxxxxxxxxx are lib-dont-depend-on-linux-headers-being-installed.patch