Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:51:30 -0500 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Move pSeries firmware feature setup into platforms/pseries |
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:39:15AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 14:52 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 07:14:49AM +0000, Linux Kernel wrote: > > > commit 1965746bce49ddf001af52c7985e16343c768021 > > > tree d311fce31613545f3430582322d66411566f1863 > > > parent 0941d57aa7034ef7010bd523752c2e3bee569ef1 > > > author Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:47:36 +1100 > > > committer Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:52:03 +1100 > > > > > > [PATCH] powerpc: Move pSeries firmware feature setup into platforms/pseries > > > > > > Currently we have some stuff in firmware.h and kernel/firmware.c that is > > > #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES. Move it all into platforms/pseries. > > > > This (or one of the other firmware patches, I've not narrowed it down that close) > > breaks ppc64 oprofile. > > > > modpost now complains with.. > > > > kernel/arch/powerpc/oprofile/oprofile.ko needs unknown symbol ppc64_firmware_features > > Hi Dave, > > I'm not sure about that patch, but I think the firmware feature stuff > has been broken for modules for a while, we weren't exporting > ppc64_firmware_features anywhere.
It's bizarre that it's only just started complaining about it. (I get a nice mail from our buildsystem when a kernel package is built with unresolved symbols), and the 2.6.16.1 kernel happily sails through.
> The fix just got merged in the last day or so: > http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d0160bf0b3e87032be8e85f80ddd2f18e107b86f
still broken with that diff. (I just tested -git15)
firmware_has_feature() needs fixing up.
Dave
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