Re: 2.6.24-rc3-mm1 make headers_check fails

Avi Kivity
2007-11-21T08:46:16Z

Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:54:50 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The make headers_check fails,
>>>
>>> CHECK include/linux/usb/gadgetfs.h
>>> CHECK include/linux/usb/ch9.h
>>> CHECK include/linux/usb/cdc.h
>>> CHECK include/linux/usb/audio.h
>>> CHECK include/linux/kvm.h
>>> /root/kernels/linux-2.6.24-rc3/usr/include/linux/kvm.h requires asm/kvm.h, which does not exist in exported headers
>>>
>> hm, works for me, on i386 and x86_64. What's different over there?
>>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> It fails on the powerpc box, with allyesconfig option.
>
>

How do we fix this? Export linux/kvm.h only on x86? Seems ugly.

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