I hit the same thing, and fixed it with mrproper as well.  I assume this

is a result of the x86 merge.
Andi, is there a way we can detect the old include directories, and

error out?  Otherwise, we're going to get a ton more of these reports

when people do incremental patching up to 2.6.24.  I've been doing

nightly incremental builds for a year or two, and I think this is the

first time it has actually required manual intervention.
-- Dave
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Hi Dave.

I cooked up the following patch - can you try it out in your

environment.

I wonder if this is that simple since no-one have done it before??
	Sam
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile

index ed65de7..136d7c2 100644

--- a/Makefile

+++ b/Makefile

@@ -903,14 +903,24 @@ prepare: prepare0
 export CPPFLAGS_vmlinux.lds += -P -C -U$(ARCH)
-# FIXME: The asm symlink changes when $(ARCH) changes. That's

-# hard to detect, but I suppose "make mrproper" is a good idea

-# before switching between archs anyway.

-

-include/asm:

-	@echo '  SYMLINK $@ -> include/asm-$(SRCARCH)'

-	$(Q)if [ ! -d include ]; then mkdir -p include; fi;

-	@ln -fsn asm-$(SRCARCH) $@

+# The asm symlink changes when $(ARCH) changes.

+# Detect this and ask user to run make mrproper

+

+include/asm: FORCE

+	$(Q)set -e; asmlink=`readlink include/asm | cut -d '-' -f 2`;   \

+	if [ -L include/asm ]; then                                     \

+		if [ "$$asmlink" != "$(SRCARCH)" ]; then                \

+			echo "ERROR: the symlink $@ points to asm-$$asmlink but asm-$(SRCARCH) was expected"; \

+			echo "       save .config and run 'make mrproper' to fix it";                         \

+			exit 1;                                         \

+		fi;                                                     \

+	else                                                            \

+		echo '  SYMLINK $@ -> include/asm-$(SRCARCH)';          \

+		if [ ! -d include ]; then                               \

+			mkdir -p include;                               \

+		fi;                                                     \

+		ln -fsn asm-$(SRCARCH) $@;                              \

+	fi
 # Generate some files

 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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I saw that too after a git pull a couple of days ago.

The following worked for me:
make mrproper

cp /proc/config.gz .config.gz (i was running 2.6.23 release kernel)

gunzip .config.gz

make silentoldconfig

make
regards,
Andre
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Please try running make mrproper.
/ismail
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Faith is believing what you know isn't so -- Mark Twain

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I found it was enough just to remove the symlink:
	rm include/asm
and then build.
Took me longer than it should have to figure out what was going on,

though.
--b.

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That fixed it. Thank you.
Thanks,

Badari
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