2002-04-06 22:10:47

by Ivan G.

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Subject: 2.5.8-pre2: Linker Failure

2.5.8-pre2
Patch causes a linker failure for fs/dquot.c.

diff -Nru a/fs/dquot.c b/fs/dquot.c
--- a/fs/dquot.c Fri Apr 5 16:56:33 2002
+++ b/fs/dquot.c Fri Apr 5 16:56:33 2002

...

- kmem_cache_shrink(dquot_cachep);
- return 0;
+ return kmem_cache_shrink_nr(dquot_cachep);

...

gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.5.8-pre2/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-
pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
-march=athlon -DKBUILD_BASENAME=
dec_and_lock -c -o dec_and_lock.o dec_and_lock.c
rm -f lib.a
ar rcs lib.a checksum.o old-checksum.o delay.o usercopy.o getuser.o
memcpy.o strstr.o mmx.o dec_and_lock.o
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.8-pre2/arch/i386/lib'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.5.8-pre2/arch/i386/lib'
ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux-2.5.8-pre2/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext
arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/ke
rnel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o init/do_mounts.o \
--start-group \
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o
fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \
/usr/src/linux-2.5.8-pre2/arch/i386/lib/lib.a
/usr/src/linux-2.5.8-pre2/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.5.8-
pre2/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \
drivers/acpi/acpi.o drivers/parport/driver.o drivers/base/base.o
drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/blo
ck.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o
drivers/ide/idedriver.o drivers/cdrom/driver.o
sound/sound.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/video/video.o \
net/network.o \
--end-group \
-o vmlinux
fs/fs.o: In function `shrink_dqcache_memory':
fs/fs.o(.text+0x1da31): undefined reference to `kmem_cache_shrink_nr'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1