netdev - Re: [stable] build error with 2.6.27.6+reiser4+ehci-hub patch. ERROR: "mii_ethtool

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Message-ID: <20081114012617.GG7331@solarflare.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:26:19 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@...clausthal.de>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] build error with 2.6.27.6+reiser4+ehci-hub patch. ERROR: "mii_ethtool_gset" [drivers/net/r8169.ko] undefined!

Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:45:19AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> > with my old config from 2.6.27.5 (which has the same patches) I get this 
> > error:
> > make all modules_install install
> > <snip>
> >   OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/setup.bin
> >   OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/vmlinux.bin
> >   HOSTCC  arch/x86/boot/tools/build
> >   BUILD   arch/x86/boot/bzImage
> > Root device is (9, 1)
> > Setup is 11436 bytes (padded to 11776 bytes).
> > System is 2180 kB
> > CRC 54816509
> > Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#1)
> >   Building modules, stage 2.
> >   MODPOST 136 modules
> > ERROR: "mii_ethtool_gset" [drivers/net/r8169.ko] undefined!
> > make[1]: *** [__modpost] Fehler 1
> > make: *** [modules] Fehler 2
> 
> Francois, this is due to your commit
> 38d501ca6eb1f05d238bef785e51ca71dbfe0115, in the release, which was a
> backport of ccdffb9a88b2907b159538d7bfd6256621db4f84.
> 
> Care to look into this?

R8169 needs to select MII.  You could cherry-pick
b73724921d906d1642f9f6d054079c6b095903fe.

Ben.

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