linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.7-rc8] lib/Makefile: Fix oid

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Date:	Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:34:04 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...abs.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.7-rc8] lib/Makefile: Fix oid_registry build dependency

Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com> wrote:

> It is $(obj)/oid_registry.o that is dependent on $(obj)/oid_registry_data.c.
> The object file cannot be built until $(obj)/oid_registry_data.c has been
> generated.
> 
> A periodic and hard to reproduce parallel build failure is due to
> this incorrect lib/Makefile dependency. The compile error is completely
> disingenuous.

Good catch.  This patch could go via Rusty's module signing tree.

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
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