Re: [PATCH linux-next] Documentation: mic: mpssd: Disable mpssd builds for kernels < 3.13

[Peter Foley]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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