On Sunday, December 2, 2018 12:38 AM, Laszlo KERTESZ <laszlo.kertesz@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 1:26 AM Tushar Pankaj <tushar.s.pankaj@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does it have to do with macros.S having a capital S extension?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tushar Pankaj
>
> Probably not. I don't have any "arch/x86/kernel/macros.s" file (actually "/usr/src/linux-headers-4.20.0-rc4/arch/x86/kernel/macros.s") at all. In fact neither do i have macros.s or macros.S in previous kernels directories.

And that's why it fails[1]. You have to add "arch/x86/kernel/macros.s" to list of files
to be copied as fedora did. Their first patch contained a typo (capital 'S' instead of 's'[2].
I don' know where debian does handle this though.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1643599
[2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/kernel.git/commit/kernel.spec?id=e7c396bbf3cd1563d445275f92b63f8e9da3f13e