linux-kernel - Re: undefined reference to `sys

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Date:	Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:12:27 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>,
	lkml list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Trond.Myklebust@...app.com, neilb@...e.de, bfields@...hat.com,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: undefined reference to `sys_nfsservctl'

Hi Kumar,

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:38:48 -0500 Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 29, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Christian Kujau wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 at 16:17, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >>>  MODPOST vmlinux.o
> >>> WARNING: modpost: Found 1 section mismatch(es).
> >>> To see full details build your kernel with:
> >>> 'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y'
> >>>  GEN     .version
> >>>  CHK     include/generated/compile.h
> >>>  UPD     include/generated/compile.h
> >>>  CC      init/version.o
> >>>  LD      init/built-in.o
> >>>  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> >>> arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
> >>> (.text+0x5be0): undefined reference to `sys_nfsservctl'
> >>> make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> >>> make: *** [sub-make] Error 2
> >> 
> >> I posted a patch to Linus earlier today (subject of lkml message:
> >> "linux-next: build failure in Linus' tree").
> > 
> > Ah, thanks. Will try. Meanwhile I've just reverted 
> > f5b940997397229975ea073679b03967932a541b (All Arch: remove linkage for 
> > sys_nfsservctl system call) and it compiled w/o errors too.
> 
> Posted patch to fix this on PPC.  Hopefully BenH will notice ;)

And Linus took my patch today, so already fixed upstream.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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