RE: Sparc-64 kernel build fails on version.h during 'make oldconf

[David S. Miller]

Leif Sawyer writes:
 > > |> -dep-files: scripts/mkdep archdep include/linux/version.h
 > > |> +dep-files: include/linux/version.h scripts/mkdep archdep
 > > 
 > > This will still fail with parallel builds.  Better make the 
 > > dependency of archdep on version.h explicit.
 > 
 > Hmm.. didn't think about SMP, as I'm only UP right now.
 > 
 > The enclosed patch then should cover all the architectures
 > for the stock 2.4.7 kernel.

Your patch points out that just making check_asm
depend on include/linux/version.h solves the problem
just fine too.

And this is the change I am making to my tree.  I'd rather
keep the change localized to Sparc{,64} for 2.4.x

Thanks.

Later,
David S. Miller
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