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diff --git a/scripts/basic/fixdep.c b/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
index 9c03a6673aad..8c4c703958cd 100644
--- a/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
+++ b/scripts/basic/fixdep.c
@@ -93,6 +93,14 @@
* (Note: it'd be easy to port over the complete mkdep state machine,
* but I don't think the added complexity is worth it)
*/
+/*
+ * Note 2: if somebody writes HELLO_CONFIG_BOOM in a file, it will depend onto
+ * CONFIG_BOOM. This could seem a bug (not too hard to fix), but please do not
+ * fix it! Some UserModeLinux files (look at arch/um/) call CONFIG_BOOM as
+ * UML_CONFIG_BOOM, to avoid conflicts with /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h,
+ * through arch/um/include/uml-config.h; this fixdep "bug" makes sure that
+ * those files will have correct dependencies.
+ */
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
@@ -310,6 +318,7 @@ void parse_dep_file(void *map, size_t len)
}
memcpy(s, m, p-m); s[p-m] = 0;
if (strrcmp(s, "include/linux/autoconf.h") &&
+ strrcmp(s, "arch/um/include/uml-config.h") &&
strrcmp(s, ".ver")) {
printf(" %s \\\n", s);
do_config_file(s);