netdev - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (net tree related)

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Date:	Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:18:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	linville@...driver.com
Cc:	ohad@...ery.com, sfr@...b.auug.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (net
 tree related)

From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:04:12 -0400

> Subject: [PATCH] wl12xx: fix separate-object-folder builds
> 
> Make this go away (happens when building with a separate object
> directory):
> 
> Assembler messages:
> Fatal error: can't create drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/.tmp_wl12xx_platform_data.o: No such file or directory
> drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl12xx_platform_data.c: In function 'wl12xx_get_platform_data':
> drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl12xx_platform_data.c:28: error: cannot open drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/.tmp_wl12xx_platform_data.gcno
> drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl12xx_platform_data.c:28: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
> 
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>
> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>

BTW, if this fuglet going to work if the driver is built modular?

The idea of this things seems to be to allow arch platform code to call
into it to set things.  Such calls from arch platform code are going
to be "obj-y"

So if this is built into the modular driver, I can't see how it
can work.
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