linux-kernel - Re: [-mm patch] make csum_and_copy_from

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Message-Id: <20070511.021443.41636409.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 11 May 2007 02:14:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	deweerdt@...e.fr
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jorge@...er.satlink.net, agulbra@....unit.no
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] make csum_and_copy_from_user arch independent

From: Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@...e.fr>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:27:38 +0200

> ERROR: "csum_partial_copy_from_user" [net/rxrpc/af-rxrpc.ko] undefined!
> 
> Linking on ARM fails because albeit a generic csum_and_copy_from_user()
> function is provided in the case ! _HAVE_ARCH_COPY_AND_CSUM_FROM_USER, the
> generic function uses csum_partial_copy_from_user() which is i386 only.

On what planet is csum_partial_copy_from_user() i386 only?
Every single platform provides that function.

The issue more-so appears to be that ARM simply fails to
export the symbol to modules like the other platforms do.
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