Re: 2.6.13-rc6-xx-all.diff is not working for 2.6.13 arm kernel

From: vikas gupta
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 06:08:16 EST


hi

--- Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:27:34PM +0300, Denis
> Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Monday 03 October 2005 12:22, vikas gupta
> wrote:
> > > hi ben ,
> > >
> > > I tried to apply 2.6.13-rc6-B0/B1-all.diff to
> > > linux-2.6.13 kernel with arm support patches .
> It's
> > > getting applied cleanly...
> > > but while building the kernel i am getting some
> build
> > > errors ...
> > > i traced the problem and get that this error are
> > > coming because of some machine specific files.
> > > 1)arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
> > > 2)include/asm-i386/seamphore.h
> > >
> > > So can you please tell me that whather any patch
> is
> > > available, in order to support these
> implementation on
> > > arm platform.
> >
> > How nice that you did not show the actual error
> message
> > and did not show your .config
>
> That's usual in the embedded world - it's a way that
> embedded folk seem
> to write their bug reports to provoke a "response"
> (the content of the
> response doesn't seem to matter, just as long as
> there is one.)
>
> However, one also has to wonder - "2.6.13 kernel
> with arm support patches"
> "arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c". Why have "arm"
> patches been applied (and
> what were they) and why i386 is being built.

Sorry for my mistake..
Arm kernel build Error LOG:
.....
CC mm/filemap.o
mm/filemap.c: In function `generic_file_aio_writev':
mm/filemap.c:2212: warning: implicit declaration of
function `aio_down'
mm/filemap.c:2216: warning: implicit declaration of
function `aio_up'
....
fs/pipe.c: In function `pipe_aio_wait':
fs/pipe.c:105: warning: implicit declaration of
function `aio_up'
fs/pipe.c: In function `pipe_aio_read':
fs/pipe.c:206: warning: implicit declaration of
function `aio_down'

.....
mm/built-in.o(.text+0x3e34): In function
`generic_file_aio_writev':
: undefined reference to `aio_down'
mm/built-in.o(.text+0x3e60): In function
`generic_file_aio_writev':
: undefined reference to `aio_up'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x10258): In function
`pipe_aio_wait':
: undefined reference to `aio_up'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x103a0): In function
`pipe_aio_read':
: undefined reference to `aio_down'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x10648): In function
`pipe_aio_read':
: undefined reference to `aio_up'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x10758): In function `$a':
: undefined reference to `aio_down'
fs/built-in.o(.text+0x10c60): In function `$a':
: undefined reference to `aio_up'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1


These functions are defined for i386 as well as x86_64

but for arm platform as above mentioned files (those i
mentioned in previos mails )are not present these are
giving errors ...
So i wanted to ask whether any patch is available for
it or not





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