linux-kernel - Re: [ 00/17] 3.4.58-stable review

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Date:	Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:08:31 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [ 00/17] 3.4.58-stable review

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 03:39:50PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:55:02PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
> > > Still failing:
> > >         sparc64:allmodconfig
> > > /opt/buildbot/slave/stable-queue-3_4/build/usr/include/linux/types.h:27:1: error: unknown type name ‘__u16’
> > 
> > According to my log collection, this same error message was fixed in v3.3-rc2,
> > but I couldn't easily find a matching commit.
> > But this is v3.4-stable, which is after v3.3-rc2, so it got reintroduced?
> > 
> It was fixed recently with
> 
> commit cbf1ef6b3345d2cc7e62407eec6a6f72a8b1346f
> Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
> Date:   Sun Mar 31 07:01:47 2013 +0000
> 
>     sparc: use asm-generic version of types.h
> 
> and
> 
> commit a2d34dd41212032c03e77bc30c2023725def841a
> Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
> Date:   Sat Mar 30 11:44:22 2013 +0000
> 
>     sparc: use generic headers
> 
> I tried to apply those patches, but it failed miserably due to the
> userspace/kernel header separation. Given that, I figured that
> it would be too invasive to fix, at least for me.
> 
> > >         xtensa:defconfig
> > > dev.c:(.text.unlikely+0x3): dangerous relocation: l32r: literal placed after use: .literal.unlikely
> > 
> > Fixed in v3.7-rc1:
> > 
> > commit f6a03a12ecdbe0dd80a55f6df3b7206c5a403a49
> > Author: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>
> > Date:   Mon Sep 17 05:44:31 2012 +0400
> > 
> >     xtensa: fix linker script transformation for .text.unlikely
> > 
> Yes, that fixes this problem, except now we get another known error:
> 
> kernel/built-in.o:(.text+0x8c8): undefined reference to `_sdata'
> 
> which you had fixed with
> 
> commit 5e7b6ed8e9bf3c8e3bb579fd0aec64f6526f8c81
> Author: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> Date:   Wed Jun 20 12:52:58 2012 -0700
> 
>     xtensa: replace xtensa-specific _f{data,text} by _s{data,text}
> 
> After applying both patches to the 3.4-stable queue, xtensa:defconfig builds
> successfully.

Thanks, both now applied.

greg k-h
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