kbuild: search arch/$ARCH/include before include/
authorSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:14:18 +0000 (21:14 +0200)
committerMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:08:13 +0000 (13:08 +0100)
commit24a675e8b86bef077e549a5ea2c6936989be4815
tree865bea4b359252c1289c91025ae26a82d85f26a7
parent4a2ff67c88211026afcbdbc190c13f705dae1b59
kbuild: search arch/$ARCH/include before include/

The namespace used in arch/$ARCH/include is different from
what is used in include/ except for the include/asm directory.

This patch gives the arch/$ARCH/include/asm directory priority
over include/asm.

When we add asm-offsets.h to arch/$ARCH/include/asm/ this
patch makes sure we pick up the arch specific version
and not the one we have in include/asm.

The situation with an asm-offsets.h file located in
both include/asm _and_ arch/$ARCH/include/asm will happen
when we move more files over to include/generated.

This happens because in some cases it is not practical
to rename all users so we simply add a file
in arch/$ARCH/include/asm that includes the generated version.

This is the solution we use for asm-offsets.h as an example.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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