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

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Message-Id: <1240358910.6571.6.camel@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:08:30 +1000
From:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
To:	subrata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, sachinp <sachinp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	"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]

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.

To avoid them, do this:

# make randconfig
# sed -i -e 's/^\(CONFIG_STAGING\)=y/# \1 is not set/' .config
# make oldconfig


cheers

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