Re: linux-next: Tree for Sept 24 (irqchip)

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On 09/24/2012 09:46 AM, Olof Johansson wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
>> Hi Randy,
>>
>> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:39:05 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 09/24/2012 07:53 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Today was a train wreck, with lots of new conflicts across several trees
>>>> and a few build failures as well.
>>>
>>> I agree.  I mostly get this:
>>>
>>> drivers/Kconfig:157: can't open file "drivers/irqchip/Kconfig"
>>>
>>> i.e., no such file.
>>>
>>> How does this happen?  :(
>>>
>>> who handles irqchip?
>>
>> Hmm, commit 89214f009c1d ("ARM: bcm2835: add interrupt controller
>> driver") from the arm-soc tree adds that file as an empty file (I have
>> the empty file in my tree).  Nothing adds anything to it.
> 
> Yeah, the directory came in through arm-soc for-next (since the
> bcm2835 driver was added), but there is an empty Kconfig in arm-soc. I
> can see it in linux-next as well.
> 
> I wonder why it doesn't show up in your tree, Randy. You just did a
> regular git checkout?


Sorry for the very delayed reply (and this is already fixed).

It doesn't show up in my kernel tree because I use linux-v3.x tarballs
and patch-3.x-rcY patches and linux-next patches, and
'patch' does not keep empty files around.

-- 
~Randy