Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, andXTENSA

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Sep 08 2013 - 21:56:46 EST


On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 06:03:00PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> mips allmodconfig fails with
>
> ERROR: "copy_from_user_page" [drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/libcfs.ko]
> undefined!
>
> which is due to LUSTRE using copy_from_user_page which is not exported by any
> architecture.

Any, or just these arches?

> Unfortunately, LUSTRE can only be built as module, so there is no
> easy fix.

Can't we just export the functions for those arches? Surely lutre
isn't the first/only driver that needs this?

thanks,

greg k-h
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