Re: [PATCH] staging: drop kbuild workaround dummy module from top dir

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Feb 07 2016 - 21:40:29 EST


On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 04:06:10PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> [Re: [PATCH] staging: drop kbuild workaround dummy module from top dir] On 18/11/2015 (Wed 09:53) Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 06:45:11PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> > > Dne 17.11.2015 v 01:58 Paul Gortmaker napsal(a):
> > > > This is essentially a revert of 86f69fe9c069dd8608d238581eea259caa1dfc99
> > > > ("Staging: workaround build system bug"), but to call it a revert would
> > > > imply it was wrong -- rather it seems more like it is just no longer
> > > > required anymore.
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > In fact, I can't even reproduce the original bug with 2.6.27 + the
> > > initial staging series. I also do not remember any fix for such bug in
> > > the recent years. 4b024242e8a4 ("kbuild: Fix linking error built-in.o no
> > > such file or directory") is related, but fixing a different problem.
> >
> > I can't remember the issue at the moment either, but it was a problem
> > with some sort of config, I'll queue this up and see if anything breaks
> > :)
>
> Did you detect any fallout? Just wondering since I didn't see it loop
> around in linux-next via staging #staging-next yet...

Sorry, it now just got applied, got way behind on patches :(