Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] kbuild: Remove stale asm-generic wrappers

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 19 January 2016 13:37:50 James Hogan wrote:
> When a header file is removed from generic-y (often accompanied by the
> addition of an arch specific header), the generated wrapper file will
> persist, and in some cases may still take precedence over the new arch
> header.
> 
> For example commit f1fe2d21f4e1 ("MIPS: Add definitions for extended
> context") removed ucontext.h from generic-y in arch/mips/include/asm/,
> and added an arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/ucontext.h. The continued use of
> the wrapper when reusing a dirty build tree resulted in build failures
> in arch/mips/kernel/signal.c:
> 
> arch/mips/kernel/signal.c: In function âsc_to_extcontextâ:
> arch/mips/kernel/signal.c:142:12: error: âstruct ucontextâ has no member named âuc_extcontextâ
>   return &uc->uc_extcontext;
>             ^
> 
> Fix by detecting and removing wrapper headers in generated header
> directories that do not correspond to a filename in generic-y, genhdr-y,
> or the newly introduced generated-y.

Good idea.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Can you merge this through the mips tree, or do you need me to pick it
up through asm-generic?