Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (akpm-current tree related)

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Wed Feb 26 2014 - 18:00:45 EST


Hi Josh,

On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 02:02:34 -0800 Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:16:27PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc64
> > allnoconfig) failed like this:
> >
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o: In function `.machine_check_queue_event':
> > (.text+0x11260): undefined reference to `.irq_work_queue'
> >
> > Caused (or exposed) (along with a lot of warnings) by commit 3dd6115cd60b
> > ("kconfig: make allnoconfig disable options behind EMBEDDED and EXPERT")
> > from the apm-current tree.
>
> Pre-existing, just now triggerable with just "make allnoconfig" rather
> than manually turning off other options (like PRINTK) that select
> IRQ_WORK. (One of the goals of that commit: get those options more
> widely used and build-tested.)
>
> The following (untested) patch *should* fix this:
> ----- 8< -----
> From 36a5b6c87292b6c5eeb390ed6dc6acbb8f0a3767 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 01:58:02 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] ppc: Make PPC_BOOK3S_64 select IRQ_WORK

OK, I added this as a merge fix patch for Andrew's tree today. Please
check the build results overnight tonight (for next-20140227 at
http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/linux-next) and submit any more fixes for
the allnoconfig build errors.

--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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