linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: provide include/asm/asm-prototypes.h for ARM

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Message-ID: <20161021015135.48a893bf@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 21 Oct 2016 01:51:35 +1100
From:   Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        adobriyan@...il.com, sfr@...b.auug.org.au, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: provide include/asm/asm-prototypes.h for ARM

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:33:27 +0100
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 01:20:17AM +1100, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > Good catch, I'm surprised you're the first one who reported it. This patch
> > seems to do the trick for me:  
> 
> And me, thanks, so...
> 
> > 
> > From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
> > Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 01:13:33 +1100
> > Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: prevent lib-ksyms.o rebuilds
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>  
> 
> Reported-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
> Tested-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

Thanks for testing it.

Hopefully if Arnd is able to respin the ARM patch to something a bit more
to your liking that doesn't expose prototypes, and no other problems arise,
we can avoid reverting. You had a poor first impression, but we may yet win
you over.