netdev - Re: error while building the kernel Mainline

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Message-ID: <4CE57C06.4080105@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:18:30 -0800
From:	"Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	linux-net@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, horms@...ge.net.au,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: error while building the kernel Mainline

On 11/18/2010 10:20 AM, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Am 18.11.2010 19:13, schrieb Justin P. Mattock:
>> On 11/18/2010 09:50 AM, David Miller wrote:
>>> From: Eric Dumazet<eric.dumazet@...il.com>
>>> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:48:17 +0100
>>>
>>>> Let me guess...
>>>>
>>>> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core is compiled as a module, and ip_vs
>>>> statically (in vmlinux) ?
>>>>
>>>> CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK=m
>>>> CONFIG_IP_VS=y
>>>>
>>>> We probably need some Kconfig magic ;)
>>>
>
> Please try whether this patch fixes the problem.
>
> netfilter: fix IP_VS dependencies
>
> When NF_CONNTRACK is enabled, IP_VS uses conntrack symbols.
> Therefore IP_VS can't be linked statically when conntrack
> is built modular.
>
> Reported-by: Justin P. Mattock<justinmattock@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy<kaber@...sh.net>
>
>


alright!! doing the above change
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK=y gets a clean build.. as well as reverting 
everything and using your patch..

Thanks for the fix..

Justin P. Mattock
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