From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756490AbYAZUqv (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:46:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753927AbYAZUqo (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:46:44 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:56481 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753853AbYAZUqm (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:46:42 -0500 Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:45:14 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Kamalesh Babulal Cc: LKML , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Andy Whitcroft , Badari Pulavarty Subject: Re: [BUILD FAILURE]2.6.24-git{1,2} kernel powerpc linkage failure Message-ID: <20080126204514.GB30867@kroah.com> References: <479B3453.3030105@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <479B3453.3030105@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 06:53:31PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > Hi, > > The 2.6.24-git2 kernel build fails on the power boxes with following build failure > > LD init/built-in.o > LD .tmp_vmlinux1 > arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o: In function `fphalf': > arch/powerpc/kernel/vector.S:(.toc+0x1428): undefined reference to `devices_subsys' > make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 > > This built-failure was seen in the mm broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32, I have tested > the patch posted to lkml at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/6/208 fixes this issue. And that patch is wrong, see my post on lkml about this yesterday. Paul is working on a "correct" patch, and if I get some time this afternoon, I'll do one too. thanks, greg k-h