From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:43:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130925144328.c679dc74178e78e188386b5a@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1309251426150.2479@eggly.anvils>
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:32:14 -0700 (PDT) Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:06:43 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > >
> > > After merging the akpm tree, linux-next builds (powerpc allmodconfig)
> > > fail like this:
> >
> > I can't get powerpc to build at all at present:
> >
> > CHK include/config/kernel.release
> > CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
> > CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h
> > CC arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.s
> > In file included from include/linux/vtime.h:6,
> > from include/linux/hardirq.h:7,
> > from include/linux/memcontrol.h:24,
> > from include/linux/swap.h:8,
> > from include/linux/suspend.h:4,
> > from arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c:24:
> > arch/powerpc/include/generated/asm/vtime.h:1:31: error: asm-generic/vtime.h: No such file or directory
>
> That caught me too: include/asm-generic/vtime.h is a patch-unfriendly
> 0-length file in the git tree;
hm, this?
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: include/asm-generic/vtime.h: avoid zero-length file
patch(1) can't handle zero-length files - it appears to simply not create
the file, so my powerpc build fails.
Put something in here to make life easier.
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
include/asm-generic/vtime.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN /dev/null include/asm-generic/vtime.h
--- /dev/null
+++ a/include/asm-generic/vtime.h
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/* no content, but patch(1) dislikes empty files */
_
> I wonder what use it's supposed to have.
Frederic, can you please confirm that include/asm-generic/vtime.h is
supposed to be empty?
> (And I'm not very keen on the growing trend for symlinks in the git tree.)
ooh, that explains why I lost my arch/microblaze/boot/dts/system.dts.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-25 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-25 1:06 linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree Stephen Rothwell
2013-09-25 1:21 ` Timur Tabi
2013-09-25 20:26 ` Andrew Morton
2013-09-25 21:32 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-09-25 21:43 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-10-02 8:53 ` Frederic Weisbecker
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-04-22 6:39 Stephen Rothwell
2020-04-22 18:33 ` Haren Myneni
2019-02-26 7:39 Stephen Rothwell
2019-02-26 8:16 ` Mike Rapoport
2018-10-05 6:14 Stephen Rothwell
2018-10-05 12:02 ` Michael Ellerman
2018-10-05 12:46 ` Stephen Rothwell
2018-10-06 12:10 ` Michael Ellerman
2011-09-28 9:22 Stephen Rothwell
2011-09-28 22:03 ` Andrew Morton
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