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SubjectRe: [BUILD FAILURE 01/04] Next June 04:PPC64 randconfig [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o]
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 20:07, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:01:32PM +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
>> CC [M]  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o
>> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c: In function ‘comedi_buf_alloc’:
>> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: ‘PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
>> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: for each function it appears in.)
>> make[3]: *** [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o] Error 1
>> make[2]: *** [drivers/staging/comedi] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [drivers/staging] Error 2
>> make: *** [drivers] Error 2
>>
>> Is it still normal to expect this failure ?
>
> No.
>
>> I reported them long back during April:
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1065227,
>
> Yes, and I took some patches that were supposed to fix this.  I can't
> duplicate this here, care to send a patch that would fix it?

PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE is defined on a few architectures only, namely
frv, m32r, mn10300, sh, and x86[*]. On all others, it will fail.

[*] Interestingly, sparc refers to it in one of its include files,
without providing a
definition, Probably that code is unused.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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