The following patch removes drivers/misc/misc.o from the kernel build. It appears that drivers/misc isn't used for anything, and should be probably be removed.

--- Makefile.old      Sun Jan 7 23:59:37 2001
+++ Makefile      Mon Jan 8 00:24:46 2001
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@
NETWORKS      =net/network.o
DRIVERS          =drivers/block/block.o \
            drivers/char/char.o \
-           drivers/misc/misc.o \
            drivers/net/net.o \
            drivers/media/media.o
LIBS       =$(TOPDIR)/lib/lib.a

--- drivers/Makefile.old      Sun Jan 7 23:59:48 2001
+++ drivers/Makefile Mon Jan 8 20:25:57 2001
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
mod-subdirs :=    dio mtd sbus video macintosh usb input telephony sgi message/i2o message/fusion ide \
            scsi md ieee1394 pnp isdn atm fc4 net/hamradio i2c acpi

-subdir-y :=      block char net parport sound misc media cdrom
+subdir-y :=      block char net parport sound media cdrom
subdir-m :=      $(subdir-y)