linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 183/196] driver core: fix build with SYSFS=n

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Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:38:58 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 183/196] driver core: fix build with SYSFS=n

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:25:30PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> 
> > From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
> > 
> > When SYSFS=n and MODULES=y, build ends with:
> > 
> > linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/base/module.c: In function 'module_add_driver':
> > linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/base/module.c:49: error: 'module_kset' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > make[3]: *** [drivers/base/module.o] Error 1
> 
> _PLEASE_ fold such fixes into the patch that introduces the build bugs, 
> prior sending your git trees upstream! (just like Andrew does it with 
> all patches that come via -mm)

For most of these issues I do merge them together.

However, for some odd kernel configurations, like this one, I didn't, my
appologies.  I'll try to be more careful in the future.

> Changes like this (and it now leaked into Linus' tree as well) kill 
> bisectability.

The odds that a "normal" person has sysfs turned off and modules
enabled, trying to bisect things, is pretty slim :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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