From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (net tree related) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100927.111818.149846920.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100927154408.55a28127.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20100927180412.GD11086@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:46497 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932447Ab0I0SR6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:17:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100927180412.GD11086@tuxdriver.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: linville@tuxdriver.com Cc: ohad@wizery.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "John W. Linville" 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 > Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell 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.