linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm2 - compile error on x86-64

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Message-Id: <20070329152455.1be1fe2f.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:24:55 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Helge Hafting <helgehaf@...el.hist.no>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm2 - compile error on x86-64

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:10:50 -0600 Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
> >
> > Ah.  I assume you have CONFIG_SYSCTL=y, CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=n?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> >
> > We're using #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL, but we should be using CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL,
> > so we get
> 
> I have no problem with the patch it is clearly more correct than what we
> are doing now but I didn't think it was possible to select
> CONFIG_SYSCTL and CONFIG_PROCFS without CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL being
> selected...
> Do we have a constraint problem in Kconfig?  Or am I misremembering things?

Hi Eric,

Looks like you are just misremembering things...

> >  fs/built-in.o: In function `proc_root_init':
> >  /usr/src/linux/fs/proc/root.c:83: undefined reference to `proc_sys_init'
> >
> > Fix that up and remove an ifdef-in-C.
> >
> > Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> > Cc: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@...el.hist.no>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>


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~Randy
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