linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure due to the drm tree

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Message-ID: <d9bcb407-8ccd-aa42-46d7-c32cd0adcf89@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:08:23 +0200
From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure due to the drm tree

Hello Mark,

On 7/26/21 11:36 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Today's -next fails to build an arm64 allnoconfig:
> 
> aarch64-none-linux-gnu-ld: drivers/firmware/sysfb.o: in function `sysfb_init':
> sysfb.c:(.init.text+0xc): undefined reference to `screen_info'
> aarch64-none-linux-gnu-ld: drivers/firmware/sysfb.o: relocation R_AARCH64_ADR_PREL_PG_HI21 against symbol `screen_info' which may bind externally can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> sysfb.c:(.init.text+0xc): dangerous relocation: unsupported relocation
> aarch64-none-linux-gnu-ld: sysfb.c:(.init.text+0x10): undefined reference to `screen_info'
> make[1]: *** [/tmp/next/build/Makefile:1276: vmlinux] Error 1
> 
> Caused by
> 
>   d391c58271072d0b0f ("drivers/firmware: move x86 Generic System Framebuffers support")
> 

Yes, this was already reported by the kernel test robot and posted a fix
a few days ago: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1465623/

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat