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SubjectRe: [patch] minor syctl fix in vsyscall_init
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 06:16:48PM +0200, Benoit Boissinot wrote:
> On 13 Apr 2005 20:29:13 +0200, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:45:18AM -0700, Matt Tolentino wrote:
> > >
> > > Andi,
> > >
> > > If CONFIG_SYCTL is not enabled then the x86-64 tree
> > > fails to build due to use of a symbol that is not
> > > compiled in. Don't bother compiling in the sysctl
> > > register call if not building with sysctl.
> >
> > Thanks. Actually it would be better to fix up sysctl.h
> > to define dummy functions in this case. I thought it did
> > that already in fact....
> >
>
> Yes it already does that, but kernel_root_table2 is not defined when
> CONFIG_SYSCTL is not set (the problem isn't with
> register_sysctl_table).
>
> With 2.6.12-rc3:
> arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c: In function `vsyscall_init':
> arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c:221: error: `kernel_root_table2'
> undeclared (first use in this function)
>
> If you prefer, i can send a patch which sets kernel_table_root2 to
> NULL when CONFIG_SYSCTL is not set. Or maybe there a better fix (btw
> is sysctl_vsyscall needed when !CONFIG_SYSCTL ?).

Hmpf ok. I assumed they were macros who ignore their arguments.
The original patch was fine, thanks.

-Andi
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