linux-kernel - Re: [BUILD FAILURE 09/12] Next April 21 : PPC64 randconfig [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o]

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Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:10:35 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>
CC:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>,
	subrata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, sachinp <sachinp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, "David A. Schleef" <ds@...leef.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linuxppc-dev <Linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	linux-next <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [BUILD FAILURE 09/12] Next April 21 : PPC64 randconfig [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 00:23 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
>>> Reported this error on 14th April:
>>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/14/488,
>>>
>>> CC [M]  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o 
>>> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c: In function ‘comedi_buf_alloc’:
>>> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: ‘PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE’
>>> undeclared (first use in this function)
>>> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: (Each undeclared identifier
>>> is reported only once
>>> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: for each function it
>>> appears in.)
>>> make[3]: *** [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o] Error 1
>>> make[2]: *** [drivers/staging/comedi] Error 2
>>> make[1]: *** [drivers/staging] Error 2
>>> make: *** [drivers] Error 2
>> Subrata, unless someone says otherwise, please do not send randconfig
>> failures for drivers in staging - those drivers have bigger problems
>> than randconfig failures.
> 
> Indeed, in particular this one http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/9/349.
> 
>> To avoid them, do this:
>>
>> # make randconfig
>> # sed -i -e 's/^\(CONFIG_STAGING\)=y/# \1 is not set/' .config
>                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Recently I discovered that `n' actually works, too!

Yes, I've been using =n for quite awhile to disable a config symbol.

>> # make oldconfig


-- 
~Randy
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