Messages in this thread | | | From | Ramkumar Ramachandra <> | Date | Mon, 9 Sep 2013 07:48:51 +0530 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA |
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Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 06:03:00PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> mips allmodconfig fails with >> >> ERROR: "copy_from_user_page" [drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/libcfs.ko] >> undefined! >> >> which is due to LUSTRE using copy_from_user_page which is not exported by any >> architecture. > > Any, or just these arches?
Arches, dungeon masters.
>> Unfortunately, LUSTRE can only be built as module, so there is no >> easy fix. > > Can't we just export the functions for those arches? Surely lutre > isn't the first/only driver that needs this?
It's simply necessary to keep up to date: we can't keep building new arches since the initial cost can be quite high.
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