linux-kernel - [PATCH] Revert "KVM: Export asm-generic/kvm

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:29:53 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "KVM: Export asm-generic/kvm_para.h"

This reverts commit 56457f38f212344fb38b250cfa7e7311c065022f.

For architectures without asm/kvm_para.h, asm-generic/Kbuild
unconditionally tries to export the non-existent header file, resulting
in failure to build the user headers. Since the logic in
asm-generic/Kbuild.asm will only export the file if it exists (which in
turn causes linux/kvm_para.h to be exported), we can just remove the
unconditional header export.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
---

I'm not sure what specific problem the original commit was fixing, so we
may need to solve this another way if there's something I've missed.

 include/asm-generic/Kbuild |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/Kbuild b/include/asm-generic/Kbuild
index 2c85a0f..53f91b1 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/Kbuild
+++ b/include/asm-generic/Kbuild
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ header-y += int-ll64.h
 header-y += ioctl.h
 header-y += ioctls.h
 header-y += ipcbuf.h
-header-y += kvm_para.h
 header-y += mman-common.h
 header-y += mman.h
 header-y += msgbuf.h
-- 
1.7.4.1

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