linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm tree

[Hugh Dickins]

On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 11:06:43 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > After merging the akpm tree, linux-next builds (powerpc allmodconfig)
> > fail like this:
> 
> I can't get powerpc to build at all at present:
> 
>   CHK     include/config/kernel.release
>   CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
>   CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
>   CC      arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.s
> In file included from include/linux/vtime.h:6,
>                  from include/linux/hardirq.h:7,
>                  from include/linux/memcontrol.h:24,
>                  from include/linux/swap.h:8,
>                  from include/linux/suspend.h:4,
>                  from arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c:24:
> arch/powerpc/include/generated/asm/vtime.h:1:31: error: asm-generic/vtime.h: No such file or directory

That caught me too: include/asm-generic/vtime.h is a patch-unfriendly
0-length file in the git tree; I wonder what use it's supposed to have.

(And I'm not very keen on the growing trend for symlinks in the git tree.)

Hugh