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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:19:15 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 06/14] firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes
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To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
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On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:10:49PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> If you modify the target asm we currently do not force the
> recompilation of the firmware files. The target asm is in
> the firmware/Makefile, peg this file as a dependency to
> require re-compilation of firmware targets when the asm
> changes.
> 
> v3: introduced in this series
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
> ---
>  firmware/Makefile | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/firmware/Makefile b/firmware/Makefile
> index e297e1b52636..fa3e81c2a97b 100644
> --- a/firmware/Makefile
> +++ b/firmware/Makefile
> @@ -176,7 +176,8 @@ quiet_cmd_fwbin = MK_FW   $@
>  wordsize_deps := $(wildcard include/config/64bit.h include/config/32bit.h \
>  		include/config/ppc32.h include/config/ppc64.h \
>  		include/config/superh32.h include/config/superh64.h \
> -		include/config/x86_32.h include/config/x86_64.h)
> +		include/config/x86_32.h include/config/x86_64.h \
> +		firmware/Makefile)
>  
>  $(patsubst %,$(obj)/%.gen.S, $(fw-shipped-y)): %: $(wordsize_deps)
>  	$(call cmd,fwbin,$(patsubst %.gen.S,%,$@))

I don't understand why this patch is in this series :(