From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: george@mvista.com
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
robustmutexes@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.14-rc5 fails to build with out CONFIG_FUTEX
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:50:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051024175039.49d97e6f.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <435D7E7F.6020608@mvista.com>
George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Both kernel/exit.c and fs/dcache.c refer to functions in kernel/futex.c which is not built unless
> >>CONFIG_FUTEX is true. This causes a build failure at link time:
> >> LD vmlinux
> >>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xab58): In function `do_exit':
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-rc/kernel/exit.c:851: undefined reference to `exit_futex'
> >>fs/built-in.o(.text+0x1b2bf): In function `dput':
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-rc/fs/dcache.c:165: undefined reference to `futex_free_robust_list'
> >
> >
> > This problem is specific to the robust-futexes patch.
>
> And that appears to be in rc5, right?
>
Nope. Your patch is not applicable to mainline kernels.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-25 0:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-24 23:33 George Anzinger
2005-10-24 23:54 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-25 0:38 ` George Anzinger
2005-10-25 0:50 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-10-25 5:11 ` George Anzinger
2005-10-25 10:34 ` Ingo Molnar
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