On Thursday 11 October 2007 6:05:55 am Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 05:52:48AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > CONFIG_SCSI_SUNESP=y breaks the build in 2.6.23:
> >
> >   LD      vmlinux
> > `scsi_esp_unregister' referenced in section `__ksymtab' of
> > drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of
> > drivers/built-in.o
> > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> >
> > Do you need my full .config to reproduce this?
>
> Please always attach the .config when reporting errors.
> The few bytes don't matter and it often saves some time.
>
> I have an idea regarding what might be going wrong in this case,
> but it would cost me additional time to look at it because you didn't
> send your .config.

*shrug*  That's why I asked.

The reason I hesitated is I use miniconfig files rather than big .config 
files, and some people get confused by that.  Drop the attached 
miniconfig-linux in the kernel source directory and go:
  make ARCH=sparc allnoconfig KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=miniconfig-linux

That expands it to a big .config file, and from there "make ARCH=sparc 
CROSS_COMPILE=sparc-" to reproduce the problem.  Assuming you have a sparc 
cross-compiler lying around.

Disable CONFIG_SCSI_SUNESP and it builds to the end, (and the result boots but 
won't mount the root filesystem, which is sort of expected).

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.