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From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EISA: Move devlist.h out of obj to always
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 19:05:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202505061904.BEFEDC8@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98d34958-e57e-40df-9196-920d40fd57f9@infradead.org>

On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 08:54:29AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi Kees,
> 
> On 4/22/25 8:50 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 4/22/25 7:37 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> >> I put devlist.h into the wrong Makefile macro ("obj") to get it included
> >> in "targets". Put it into "always" so nothing tries to link against it.
> >> Solves CONFIG_EISA=y i386 build failure:
> >>
> >> ld: vmlinux.a: member drivers/eisa/devlist.h in archive is not an object
> >>
> >> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> >> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4a8ba1d0-d2d9-41f8-abf1-d45ec8996d10@infradead.org
> >> Fixes: dd09eb0e2cc4 ("EISA: Increase length of device names")
> >> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> > Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> 
> Please merge this patch. The build failure is killing lots of i386 builds.
> Thanks.

Greg, please take this into your -next tree. The commit it fixes isn't
in Linus's tree, so I don't have any way to land it sanely in -next.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook

      parent reply	other threads:[~2025-05-07  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-04-23  2:37 [PATCH] EISA: Move devlist.h out of obj to always Kees Cook
2025-04-23  3:50 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-05-06 15:54   ` Randy Dunlap
2025-05-06 18:51     ` Kees Cook
2025-05-06 19:17       ` Randy Dunlap
2025-05-07  5:00         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-05-07  2:05     ` Kees Cook [this message]

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