Re: stale object files (was Re: Linux-3.4-rc7)

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Tue May 15 2012 - 03:38:54 EST


On Mon, 14 May 2012, Michal Marek wrote:

> > Ok, added the appropriate kbuild people: Machal - skb_dev_set() no
> > longer exists, there are no users of it, so it looks like something
> > doesn't get rebuilt correctly.
> >
> > PaweÅ, can you please also send us the config file you're using, then
> > we can recreate the exact setup you have.
> >
> > Linus
> >
> > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 2:13 PM, PaweÅ Sikora <pluto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> starting from current rc7 build tree...
> >>
> >> $ cp .config ../config
> >> $ make distclean
> >> $ git co v3.4-rc5
> >> $ cp ../config .config
> >> $ make oldconfig
> >> $ make -j8
> >> $ git co v3.4-rc7
> >> $ make oldconfig
> >> $ make -j8
>
> This make results in
>
> ERROR: "handle_edge_irq" [drivers/gpio/gpio-pch.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "irq_to_desc" [drivers/gpio/gpio-pch.ko] undefined!
> make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
> make: *** [modules] Error 2
>
> The second failure is simply GIGO.

Seems like my build fix for this from [1] hasn't been picked up by anyone.
Is this going to be fixed in a different way (like disallowing gpio-pch to
be built as module), or ... ?

Thanks.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/13/21

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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