linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: pass headers to headers

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Date:	Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:43:01 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>
Cc:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...hat.com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: pass headers to headers_install.sh on stdin

Dne 6.6.2013 19:59, Josh Boyer napsal(a):
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Kyle McMartin <kyle@...hat.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 07:41:57PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
>>> Dne 6.6.2013 19:05, Kyle McMartin napsal(a):
>>>> While using make V=1 to test some things, I noticed on our builders that
>>>> headers_install was failing because the argument list to /bin/sh was too
>>>> long. Working around it is slightly kludgy...
>>>
>>> This is already fixed with
>>>
>>>
>>> commit c0ff68f1611d6855a06d672989ad5cfea160a4eb
>>> Author: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
>>> Date:   Mon Apr 29 14:15:51 2013 +0200
>>>
>>>     kbuild: fix make headers_install when path is too long
>>>
>>>
>>> in linux-next.
>>>
>>
>> OK, I guess.
> 
> Wait... not OK.  This is broken now.  People are clearly having to fix
> it again and wasting their time because a fix is already available.
> Why is a fix for it sitting in linux-next?  Please get that fix into
> Linus' tree.

This bug has been there for about five years (as far as I can tell, it
was introduced by 7712401). It is a coincidence that two people report
it now within a couple of weeks, but IMO this does not make the bug so
urgent that it can't wait for the next -rc1.

Michal
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