Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755770AbYCKTYT (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:24:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754113AbYCKTXt (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:23:49 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.159]:59114 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752364AbYCKTXs (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:23:48 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-disposition:message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=S7yTAaKnlz7lwizVx4Xlvl+ZDwdVKEDazTN/vSwlFSaXCuQrAvQIaqL0XnrYqltprXj4qMFelMwrOgkEfy4oYdMywrQcWOcLv5uL4FfA4hMQAcgl2SwN2GmP9dXys19/rUw4T6diDzw4PLwP5rVyN2v3dzlr+3ixkZiy0FqWzFA= From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Build Failure] 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Build fails with allmodconfig probe_4drives undefined Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:36:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Kamalesh Babulal , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, apw@shadowen.org References: <20080311011434.ad8c8d7d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47D68126.40109@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20080311111958.c0d3188d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080311111958.c0d3188d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803112036.08007.bzolnier@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1215 Lines: 32 On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:25:02 +0530 > Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > > > MODPOST 2279 modules > > ERROR: "probe_4drives" [drivers/ide/ide-core.ko] undefined! > > Caused by ide-mm-ide-add-ide-4drives-host-driver-take-3.patch. Applying > that patch alone to current mainline causes the above error after i386 > `make allmodconfig'. > > Just exporting the symbol doesn't fix it, so something funny is going on. toolchain? [ standard F7 system w/ updates here ] > probe_4drives should not be initialised to zero. > > probe_4drives should not be declared extern in drivers/ide/ide.c - please > declare it in a header which is included by the definition site and by all > users. I was aware of the warnings and this was only temporary (it is already fixed by to-be-posted-today patch which removes deprecated "idex=" kernel parameters and makes _all_ probe_* variables static). Thanks, Bart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/