Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753463AbZFDUky (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 16:40:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751786AbZFDUkr (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 16:40:47 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f213.google.com ([209.85.220.213]:57364 "EHLO mail-fx0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750814AbZFDUkq convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jun 2009 16:40:46 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=XO24Q5JzyN8cneiMjlqUK4qUjtv/kZ7310WL5rpjv+Ik9EivZCmi4KTUFR/yQYGsUo ET7y5cKOLBBgQ70Yzgy+lNhFwJJQIxUFvp0jMpp7ump3Xna89l6dPQZl3lTzOE78qXxJ La1N+rnG9g991zS1v+JWrvsrYY3H75Ul+NG68= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090604180736.GA24902@kroah.com> References: <20090604133132.19010.16577.sendpatchset@subratamodak.linux.ibm.com> <20090604180736.GA24902@kroah.com> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 22:40:47 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: a3b8cef4759b8925 Message-ID: <10f740e80906041340x4f51b5f0ra542b60d758a4b54@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [BUILD FAILURE 01/04] Next June 04:PPC64 randconfig [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o] From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Greg KH Cc: Subrata Modak , Geert Uytterhoeven , Michael Ellerman , Sachin P Sant , Stephen Rothwell , Linux-Next , Linux-Kernel , Linuxppc-dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1840 Lines: 44 On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 20:07, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:01:32PM +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: >> 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 >> >> Is it still normal to expect this failure ? > > No. > >> I reported them long back during April: >> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1065227, > > Yes, and I took some patches that were supposed to fix this.  I can't > duplicate this here, care to send a patch that would fix it? PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE is defined on a few architectures only, namely frv, m32r, mn10300, sh, and x86[*]. On all others, it will fail. [*] Interestingly, sparc refers to it in one of its include files, without providing a definition, Probably that code is unused. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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/