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Linus reported an issue that doing an allmodconfig was causing the kheaders archive to be regenerated even though the config is the same. This patch fixes the issue by ignoring the config-related header files for "knowing when to regenerate based on timestamps". Instead, if the CONFIG_X_Y option really changes, then we there are the include/config/X/Y.h which will already tells us "if a config really changed". So we don't really need these files for regeneration detection anyway, and ignoring them fixes Linus's issue. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.