linux-kernel - Re: [Build Failure] 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Build fails with allmodconfig probe

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Message-Id: <200803112036.08007.bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:36:07 +0100
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	apw@...dowen.org
Subject: Re: [Build Failure] 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Build fails with allmodconfig probe_4drives undefined

On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:25:02 +0530
> Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> >   MODPOST 2279 modules
> > ERROR: "probe_4drives" [drivers/ide/ide-core.ko] undefined!
> 
> Caused by ide-mm-ide-add-ide-4drives-host-driver-take-3.patch.  Applying
> that patch alone to current mainline causes the above error after i386
> `make allmodconfig'.
> 
> Just exporting the symbol doesn't fix it, so something funny is going on.

toolchain?  [ standard F7 system w/ updates here ]

> probe_4drives should not be initialised to zero.
> 
> probe_4drives should not be declared extern in drivers/ide/ide.c - please
> declare it in a header which is included by the definition site and by all
> users.

I was aware of the warnings and this was only temporary (it is already fixed
by to-be-posted-today patch which removes deprecated "idex=" kernel parameters
and makes _all_ probe_* variables static).

Thanks,
Bart
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