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From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: "Devin J. Pohly" <djpohly@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Devin J. Pohly" <djpohly+linux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] kbuild: use $(srctree) to locate config headers from external modules
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:10:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53DF944C.2090207@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406922443-22770-1-git-send-email-djpohly+linux@gmail.com>

On 2014-08-01 21:47, Devin J. Pohly wrote:
> When making modules_install for an out-of-tree module, the current
> directory is $(KBUILD_OUTPUT), and the Makefile recipe which verifies
> the existence of files in include/config is unable to find them using a
> relative path.  This leads to a spurious and puzzling "Kernel
> configuration is invalid" warning when no configuration is actually
> needed.

include/generated is located in $(KBUILD_OUTPUT), which is different
from $(srctree) when using O=. Can you post a sequence of commands that
leads to the error you are seeing?

Thanks,
Michal

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-04 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-01 19:47 [PATCH 1/1] kbuild: use $(srctree) to locate config headers from external modules Devin J. Pohly
2014-08-04 14:10 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2014-08-04 14:43   ` Devin J. Pohly
2014-08-04 14:53     ` Michal Marek

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