From d3fc425e819be7c251a9c208cd4c0a6373c19bfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:41:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: make sure autoksyms.h exists early

Some people are able to trigger a race where autoksyms.h is used before
its empty version is even created.  Let's create it at the same time as
the directory holding it is created.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 Makefile                 | 2 --
 scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 694111b43cf8a..9f9c3b577c756 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1019,8 +1019,6 @@ prepare2: prepare3 prepare-compiler-check outputmakefile asm-generic
 prepare1: prepare2 $(version_h) include/generated/utsrelease.h \
                    include/config/auto.conf
 	$(cmd_crmodverdir)
-	$(Q)test -e include/generated/autoksyms.h || \
-	    touch   include/generated/autoksyms.h
 
 archprepare: archheaders archscripts prepare1 scripts_basic
 
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
index ebced77deb9c4..90a091b6ae4de 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/Makefile
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ nconfig: $(obj)/nconf
 
 silentoldconfig: $(obj)/conf
 	$(Q)mkdir -p include/config include/generated
+	$(Q)test -e include/generated/autoksyms.h || \
+	    touch   include/generated/autoksyms.h
 	$< $(silent) --$@ $(Kconfig)
 
 localyesconfig localmodconfig: $(obj)/streamline_config.pl $(obj)/conf
-- 
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