mpumford@black-star.demon.co.uk said:
> The kernel build process does not do any depency checking for
> assembler files  so assembler files do not get rebuilt if a header
> that they depend on is  changed. iomd_iic.S uses the IOMD base address
> defined in iomd.h. 

That's because the depend routines only scan for assembler files beginning 
with .s (not .S).  I don't know why arm32's are so named -- maybe it's 
because we used to use gcc to pre-process them at one point.

R