linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree

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Date:	Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:32:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@...too.org>,
	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree

On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:06:43 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > After merging the akpm tree, linux-next builds (powerpc allmodconfig)
> > fail like this:
> 
> I can't get powerpc to build at all at present:
> 
>   CHK     include/config/kernel.release
>   CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
>   CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
>   CC      arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.s
> In file included from include/linux/vtime.h:6,
>                  from include/linux/hardirq.h:7,
>                  from include/linux/memcontrol.h:24,
>                  from include/linux/swap.h:8,
>                  from include/linux/suspend.h:4,
>                  from arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c:24:
> arch/powerpc/include/generated/asm/vtime.h:1:31: error: asm-generic/vtime.h: No such file or directory

That caught me too: include/asm-generic/vtime.h is a patch-unfriendly
0-length file in the git tree; I wonder what use it's supposed to have.

(And I'm not very keen on the growing trend for symlinks in the git tree.)

Hugh
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