Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 May 2005 23:58:42 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering |
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On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:36:26AM +0000, Russell King wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:26:32AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:38:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Grump. Have all these regressions received the appropriate level of > > > > visibility on this mailing list? > > > > > > Looking at the http://l4x.org/k/ site, it appears that all -mm versions > > > have broken ARM support with the defconfig, while Linus kernels at least > > > build fine. > > > > It's very much in an arch maintainer's interest to make sure that > > cross-compilers are easily obtainable. Any hints? > > Been trying to achieve that since it's a FAQ on ARM lists. Even gone to > the extent of setting up a separate mailing list, getting a volunteer to > track what people want and do the hard work to build them. That was > about 6 months ago, and I haven't seen any results. > > I was thinking at the time "great, this is one problem which should be > solved". How silly of me. It seems, yet again, that it comes down to > a case of "if rmk doesn't do it, it won't get done." Sad but true. > Now, why do I keep feeling that I'm being taken advantage of all the > time? Could it be the complete lack of productive help from anyone else. > > Anyway, going back to why -mm doesn't work: > > arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0xb64): In function `$a': > : undefined reference to `rd_size' > make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 > > So "rd_size" got deleted in -mm kernels without reference to anyone else > who's using it. Greeeeaaatttt....
And guess what? This patch is now in Linus kernel. Greeeeaaaattttt stuff whoever did that. Truely wonderful job.
Thanks for taking notice of me a month ago. I really appreciate it. Especially when stuff gets merged which has already been pointed out as needlessly _BREAKING_ stuff.
Linus - please revert the change which caused this.
CHK include/linux/compile.h UPD include/linux/compile.h CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0x9d4): In function `$a': : undefined reference to `rd_size' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
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