Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:43:01 +0200 | From | Michal Marek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Kbuild: pass headers to headers_install.sh on stdin |
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Dne 6.6.2013 19:59, Josh Boyer napsal(a): > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> 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 <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> >>> 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
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