linux-kernel - Re: kbuild now support arch/$ARCH/include

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Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2008 21:28:42 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	linux arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kbuild now support arch/$ARCH/include - time for ARCHs to convert

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 08:21:26PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:06:15PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > Currently, I know Linus' tree builds fine for most ARM platforms (thanks
> > to the ARM kautobuild project.)  However, I'm seeing unexpected build
> > failures that don't make sense from the linux-next project.
> 
> And the expression "oh bugger" comes to mind.  The breakage in linux-next
> is because of 2e57d051160dd61776461637f767df19036b1186 and
> ea35455e0dc17d732436a5b98bd511cab64eb10e.
> 
> During the last fortnight, I'd moved the "easy to move" ARM headers
> from include/asm-arm to arch/arm/include/asm.  This means that, unknown
> to me, the symlink was no longer being created.  That didn't get picked
> up in my testing, because I always build using O= builds into already
> existing object trees, which of course all have the symlink in place.
> 
> This doesn't affect kautobuild because that always builds trees without
> using the O= facility.
> 
> The question is what to do about it.  Given the size of the task, I'm
> currently of the opinion that we're moving things around in the wrong
> order, and 4baa9922430662431231ac637adedddbb0cfb2d7 should be reverted
> until we've moved all the other ARM headers (in asm/arch and asm/plat-*)
> first.

Our mails crossed. I will fix kbuild asap so you do not need to revert.

	Sam
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