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Date:	Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:49:53 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Caveh Jalali <ecaveh@...il.com>, sam@...nborg.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Makefile: can't build modules outside the kernel tree if 
	it was built using O=

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 17 September 2009, Caveh Jalali wrote:
>
>> when the platform specific include directories were shuffled around
>> without updating the
>> top level Makefile.  however, i think this FAIL is generic, and not
>> limited to powerpc.
>> here's a patch to the top level Makefile to teach it about the shuffled files:
>>
>>
>> --- /local/caveh/linux/linux-2.6.31/Makefile    2009-09-09
>> 15:13:59.000000000 -0700
>> +++ Makefile    2009-09-16 12:23:05.000000000 -0700
>> @@ -958,9 +958,9 @@ ifneq ($(KBUILD_SRC),)
>>                 echo "  in the '$(srctree)' directory.";\
>>                 /bin/false; \
>>         fi;
>> -       $(Q)if [ ! -d include2 ]; then                                  \
>> -           mkdir -p include2;                                          \
>> -           ln -fsn $(srctree)/include/asm-$(SRCARCH) include2/asm;     \
>> +       $(Q)if [ ! -d include2 ]; then                                   \
>> +           mkdir -p include2;                                           \
>> +           ln -fsn $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/asm include2/asm; \
>>         fi
>>  endif
>
> I think we should no longer have the include2 directory at all with new kernels.
>
> LINUXINCLUDE already contains the right path in theory:
>
> LINUXINCLUDE    := -Iinclude \
>                   $(if $(KBUILD_SRC),-Iinclude2 -I$(srctree)/include) \
>                   -I$(srctree)/arch/$(hdr-arch)/include               \
>                   -include include/linux/autoconf.h

Hmm, at least in mmotm, we still have include2...

Maybe Sam is queueing the patches to remove include2?