Re: Linux 2.6.28-rc1

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Oct 24 2008 - 07:40:48 EST


On Friday, 24 of October 2008, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Friday 24 October 2008 05:10:29 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > It's been two weeks, so it's time to close the merge window. A 2.6.28-rc1
> > is out there, and it's hopefully all good.
>
> It seems if you have a broken asm/ symlink in include/ (which happened as a
> result of the x86 header moves, for me) the kernel won't try to update it
> appropriately, and this breaks "make prepare".
>
> $ make ARCH=x86_64 prepare
> CHK include/linux/version.h
> CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
> GEN include/asm/asm-offsets.h
> /bin/sh: include/asm/asm-offsets.h: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [include/asm/asm-offsets.h] Error 1
> make: *** [prepare0] Error 2
>
> rm -f include/asm fixes it
>
> This was just from taking a 2.6.27 tree, git clean -d -f, git pull, make
> oldconfig. Might be a nice thing to fix?

Hm, I didn't have any problems with compiling .28-rc1 on x86_64.

[Confused.]

Rafael
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