Re: [PATCH] x86,edac: fix for compiler error in traps.c

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Impact: compile fix
> 
>  I got this compile failure on both tip/tracing/core as well as on 
>  v2.6.30-rc1.
>  
>    LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
>  arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In function `do_nmi':
>  (.text+0x3c18): undefined reference to `edac_handler_set'
>  arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In function `do_nmi':
>  (.text+0x3c48): undefined reference to `edac_atomic_assert_error'
>  make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
>  [root@bxrhel51 linux-trace.git]# grep edac_handler_set 
>  [root@bxrhel51 linux-trace.git]# Grep edac_handler_set '*.[ch]'
>  find .  -name "*.[ch]" ! -type d  | xargs grep  "edac_handler_set"
>  ./arch/x86/kernel/traps.c:	if (edac_handler_set()) {
>  ./include/linux/edac.h:extern int edac_handler_set(void);
>  ./drivers/edac/edac_stub.c:int edac_handler_set(void)
>  ./drivers/edac/edac_stub.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(edac_handler_set);
>  
> This patch seems to fix it.

> -obj-$(CONFIG_EDAC)			:= edac_stub.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_EDAC)			+= edac_stub.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_EDAC_MM_EDAC)		+= edac_core.o

It's weird that this breaks for you. What other bit of the kernel 
introduces CONFIG_EDAC rules?

And it's clean to start driver rules with the := assignment and then 
append to them via +=. The initial += should not be needed.

Are you sure you have a pristine build environment?

	Ingo
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