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Message-ID: <m1bqaueirm.fsf_-_@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:23:25 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Avuton Olrich" <avuton@...il.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sysctl:  Don't compile sysctl_check when !CONFIG_SYSCTL

Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> writes:

> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:27:16 -0700 Avuton Olrich wrote:
>
>> Good Day,
>> 
>> My randconfig just caught an error on:
>> kernel/built-in.o: In function `sysctl_check_lookup':
>> sysctl_check.c:(.text+0x17db1): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_next'
>> sysctl_check.c:(.text+0x17dc7): undefined reference to `sysctl_head_finish'
>> 
>> Git bisect was unsuccessful due to too many unrelated errors trying to
>> track down the issue. I also couldn't track down the offending
>> function. Any idea of the issue?
>> 
>> Against this config: http://avuton.googlepages.com/sysctl-head-next.config
>> 
>> git master: 4fa4d23fa20de67df919030c1216295664866ad7
>
> Eric,
>
> Please have a look at this one.
>
> .config file link is above.
>
> # CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL is not set
> # CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL is not set
>

Weird I thought I had written the makefile so this would be handled.
Oh well this should fix it.

Sorry about that.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 kernel/Makefile |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index 05c3e6d..79f017e 100644
--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ obj-y     = sched.o fork.o exec_domain.o panic.o printk.o profile.o \
 	    rcupdate.o extable.o params.o posix-timers.o \
 	    kthread.o wait.o kfifo.o sys_ni.o posix-cpu-timers.o mutex.o \
 	    hrtimer.o rwsem.o latency.o nsproxy.o srcu.o \
-	    utsname.o sysctl_check.o notifier.o
+	    utsname.o notifier.o
 
+obj-$(CONFIG_SYSCTL) += sysctl_check.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_STACKTRACE) += stacktrace.o
 obj-y += time/
 obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES) += mutex-debug.o
-- 
1.5.3.rc6.17.g1911

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