Re: [PATCH 3.7-rc8] lib/Makefile: Fix oid_registry build dependency

From: David Howells
Date: Wed Dec 05 2012 - 05:34:03 EST


Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It is $(obj)/oid_registry.o that is dependent on $(obj)/oid_registry_data.c.
> The object file cannot be built until $(obj)/oid_registry_data.c has been
> generated.
>
> A periodic and hard to reproduce parallel build failure is due to
> this incorrect lib/Makefile dependency. The compile error is completely
> disingenuous.

Good catch. This patch could go via Rusty's module signing tree.

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
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