Re: [RFC] better fix? (was: Re: [PATCH][GIT PULL] ftrace: Removerecursion between recordmcount and scripts/mod/empty)

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 21:35 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> An additional comment about the origin of empty.o is needed.
> Only very few people knows that we generate empty.o in scripts/

OK, how are you with this comment?

# Due to recursion, we must skip the empty.o file.
# The empty.o file is created in the make process in order
#  to determine the target endianness and word size.
#  It is made before all other C files, including recordmcount.

-- Steve


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