Re: Can anyone suggest a better fix? Not sure if I understand theproblem, but the patch fixed it

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 07:22:46PM +0000, Yang, Fei wrote:
> >From 5e6501efa26bc19dad0b43e3a2b0daa81408a8ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Fei Yang <fei.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:21:48 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] FIXDEP: error opening depfile
>  
> Met a kernel build issue where fixdep fails to open a depfile,
> fixdep: error opening depfile: drivers/driver-name/.driver-code.o.d: No such file or directory
> make[4]: *** [drivers/driver-name/driver-code.o] Error 2
> make[3]: *** [drivers/driver-name] Error 2
> Don't know why the expected file was not created, but the assumption that
> the file had been created might not be true, so simply return for such failure.

I tried to grep:
git grep "driver-name"

No hits.

Are you trying to fix a build issue with something out-of-tree - or is this only in linux-next?

	Sam
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