Re: Compile errors in 2.3.28 (and lower)...

Sergey Kubushin (ksi@ksi-linux.com)
Sat, 13 Nov 1999 20:49:41 +0200 (EET)


On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, John Kennedy wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 13, 1999 at 05:19:55PM +0100, jensn@hal1.physik.uni-dortmund.de wrote:
> > Sorry, for reporting these so late, but time...
> >
> > i) in init/main.c:
> > if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is set, then the variable 'memory_start' is
> > not defined/declared (i think, since 2.3.24 ?); hopefully the last
> > INITRD memory_start/end bug...
>
> Other than a rude message from Alexander Viro telling someone to
> patch it themselves or shut up (my words, not his), I haven't seen any
> fixes for that one. I was broken after 2.3.22, FYI.
>
> The change to init/main.c after 2.3.22 seems to have been to get rid
> of the memory-awareness in that code. Someone added a comment that I
> haven't noticed until now...
>
> + // FIXME, use the bootmem.h interface.

This comment is also present in 2.3.20 where it worked...

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