Re: [PATCH] staging: drop kbuild workaround dummy module from top dir

[Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>]

[Re: [PATCH] staging: drop kbuild workaround dummy module from top dir] On 18/11/2015 (Wed 09:53) Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 06:45:11PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> > Dne 17.11.2015 v 01:58 Paul Gortmaker napsal(a):
> > > This is essentially a revert of 86f69fe9c069dd8608d238581eea259caa1dfc99
> > > ("Staging: workaround build system bug"), but to call it a revert would
> > > imply it was wrong -- rather it seems more like it is just no longer
> > > required anymore.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
> > 
> > In fact, I can't even reproduce the original bug with 2.6.27 + the
> > initial staging series. I also do not remember any fix for such bug in
> > the recent years. 4b024242e8a4 ("kbuild: Fix linking error built-in.o no
> > such file or directory") is related, but fixing a different problem.
> 
> I can't remember the issue at the moment either, but it was a problem
> with some sort of config, I'll queue this up and see if anything breaks
> :)

Did you detect any fallout?  Just wondering since I didn't see it loop
around in linux-next via staging #staging-next yet...

Thanks,
Paul.
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> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h