On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:33:27 +0100
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 01:20:17AM +1100, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > Good catch, I'm surprised you're the first one who reported it. This patch
> > seems to do the trick for me:  
> 
> And me, thanks, so...
> 
> > 
> > From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 01:13:33 +1100
> > Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: prevent lib-ksyms.o rebuilds
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>  
> 
> Reported-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
> Tested-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>

Thanks for testing it.

Hopefully if Arnd is able to respin the ARM patch to something a bit more
to your liking that doesn't expose prototypes, and no other problems arise,
we can avoid reverting. You had a poor first impression, but we may yet win
you over.