I got this while trying to prune the kernel down to fit into a zImage
for testing (have a box that's being stubborn about getting to even the
'Uncompressing Linux...' message).

  LD      vmlinux
lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o): In function
`kobject_uevent':kobject_uevent.c:(.text+0x25b): undefined reference to
`uevent_seqnum'
:kobject_uevent.c:(.text+0x261): undefined reference to `uevent_seqnum'
:kobject_uevent.c:(.text+0x26d): undefined reference to `uevent_seqnum'
:kobject_uevent.c:(.text+0x273): undefined reference to `uevent_seqnum'
:kobject_uevent.c:(.text+0x3bf): undefined reference to `uevent_helper'
:kobject_uevent.c:(.text+0x3ce): undefined reference to `uevent_helper'
:kobject_uevent.c:(.text+0x3ed): undefined reference to `uevent_helper'
make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1


The .config is attached.

Zephaniah E. Hull.

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