Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752160Ab3FFSnK (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 14:43:10 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:47643 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750971Ab3FFSnJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jun 2013 14:43:09 -0400 Message-ID: <51B0D835.3050808@suse.cz> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:43:01 +0200 From: Michal Marek User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Boyer Cc: Kyle McMartin , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Rob Landley , "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: pass headers to headers_install.sh on stdin References: <20130606170557.GQ14762@redacted.bos.redhat.com> <51B0C9E5.7030105@suse.cz> <20130606175529.GT14762@redacted.bos.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1491 Lines: 39 Dne 6.6.2013 19:59, Josh Boyer napsal(a): > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 07:41:57PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote: >>> Dne 6.6.2013 19:05, Kyle McMartin napsal(a): >>>> While using make V=1 to test some things, I noticed on our builders that >>>> headers_install was failing because the argument list to /bin/sh was too >>>> long. Working around it is slightly kludgy... >>> >>> This is already fixed with >>> >>> >>> commit c0ff68f1611d6855a06d672989ad5cfea160a4eb >>> Author: Nicolas Dichtel >>> Date: Mon Apr 29 14:15:51 2013 +0200 >>> >>> kbuild: fix make headers_install when path is too long >>> >>> >>> in linux-next. >>> >> >> OK, I guess. > > Wait... not OK. This is broken now. People are clearly having to fix > it again and wasting their time because a fix is already available. > Why is a fix for it sitting in linux-next? Please get that fix into > Linus' tree. This bug has been there for about five years (as far as I can tell, it was introduced by 7712401). It is a coincidence that two people report it now within a couple of weeks, but IMO this does not make the bug so urgent that it can't wait for the next -rc1. Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/