linux-kernel - Re: Build regressions/improvements in v3.10-rc1 (avr)

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Date:	Mon, 13 May 2013 15:00:49 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@...fundet.no>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Build regressions/improvements in v3.10-rc1 (avr)

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Hans-Christian Egtvedt
<egtvedt@...fundet.no> wrote:
> Around Sun 12 May 2013 22:45:01 +0200 or thereabout, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Sun, 12 May 2013, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>> However, the full list of errors isn't that unmanageable, so I'm following
>>> up with a digested list...
>>
>> (.init.text+0x540): undefined reference to `atmel_default_console_device': 1 errors in 1 logs
>>       v3.10-rc1/avr32/avr32-allnoconfig
>>       Patch sent last February
>
> I recall to have acked patch(es) related to the serial (console) driver.

Sure, but so far arch/avr doesn't fall under my jurisdiction, so I
haven't sent it
upstream yet ;-)

Anyway, it seems I have accumulated too many patches for exotic
arches, so I plan
to create an exotic-arch-fixes branch, to be pulled by Linus in a few rcs...

> It is caused by CONFIG_SERIAL_ATMEL no set in .config, but the machine code
> still writes to atmel_default_console_device when you call
> at32_setup_serial_console().
>
> Two ways to fix, either select the SERIAL_ATMEL symbol or ifdef around the
> atmel_default_console_device assignment in the machine code.

Yep, my patch did the latter.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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