linux-kernel - Re: [BUILD FAILURE]2.6.24-git{1,2} kernel powerpc linkage failure

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Date:	Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:45:14 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [BUILD FAILURE]2.6.24-git{1,2} kernel powerpc linkage failure

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 06:53:31PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The 2.6.24-git2 kernel build fails on the power boxes with following build failure
> 
>   LD      init/built-in.o
>   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o: In function `fphalf':
> arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S:(.toc+0x1428): undefined reference to `devices_subsys'
> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> 
> This built-failure was seen in the mm broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32, I have tested 
> the patch posted to lkml at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/6/208 fixes this issue.

And that patch is wrong, see my post on lkml about this yesterday.

Paul is working on a "correct" patch, and if I get some time this
afternoon, I'll do one too.

thanks,

greg k-h
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