Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754969AbZDVPNX (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:13:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755062AbZDVPNG (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:13:06 -0400 Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:60041 "EHLO acsinet11.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754325AbZDVPNF (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:13:05 -0400 Message-ID: <49EF336B.5070807@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:10:35 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap Organization: Oracle Linux Engineering User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geert Uytterhoeven CC: Michael Ellerman , subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com, sachinp , Stephen Rothwell , Greg KH , "David A. Schleef" , linux-kernel , Linuxppc-dev , linux-next , Alexander Beregalov Subject: Re: [BUILD FAILURE 09/12] Next April 21 : PPC64 randconfig [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o] References: <1240340029.9110.142.camel@subratamodak.linux.ibm.com> <1240358910.6571.6.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Source-IP: acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090206.49EF333D.004D:SCFMA922111,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1646 Lines: 43 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Michael Ellerman wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 00:23 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: >>> Reported this error on 14th April: >>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/14/488, >>> >>> CC [M] drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o >>> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c: In function ?comedi_buf_alloc?: >>> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: ?PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE? >>> undeclared (first use in this function) >>> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: (Each undeclared identifier >>> is reported only once >>> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: for each function it >>> appears in.) >>> make[3]: *** [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o] Error 1 >>> make[2]: *** [drivers/staging/comedi] Error 2 >>> make[1]: *** [drivers/staging] Error 2 >>> make: *** [drivers] Error 2 >> Subrata, unless someone says otherwise, please do not send randconfig >> failures for drivers in staging - those drivers have bigger problems >> than randconfig failures. > > Indeed, in particular this one http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/9/349. > >> To avoid them, do this: >> >> # make randconfig >> # sed -i -e 's/^\(CONFIG_STAGING\)=y/# \1 is not set/' .config > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Recently I discovered that `n' actually works, too! Yes, I've been using =n for quite awhile to disable a config symbol. >> # make oldconfig -- ~Randy -- 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/