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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:47:11 -0400 From: Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: ashutosh dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, "Dutt, Sudeep" <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>, "Rao, Nikhil" <nikhil.rao@...el.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next] Documentation: mic: mpssd: Disable mpssd builds for kernels < 3.13 On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: > This build error is caused by compiling mpssd prior to `make > headers_install'. > > There's really no reason to check the kernel version. If someone > transplants mpssd out of its distributed kernel and into some older > kernel then a miscompile is their problem - their backport is > incomplete. I've only noticed this error when running make Documentation/, in which case gcc silently uses the headers from the system, since the headers_install ones don't exist yet. Maybe having the build error out in this case instead of having mysterious compile errors would be a better solution? Thanks Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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