On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > This build error is caused by compiling mpssd prior to `make > headers_install'. > > There's really no reason to check the kernel version. If someone > transplants mpssd out of its distributed kernel and into some older > kernel then a miscompile is their problem - their backport is > incomplete.
I've only noticed this error when running make Documentation/, in which case gcc silently uses the headers from the system, since the headers_install ones don't exist yet. Maybe having the build error out in this case instead of having mysterious compile errors would be a better solution? Thanks Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/