From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linuv 2.6.15-rc1
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 09:31:06 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1131834667.7406.49.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051112222045.GC21448@stusta.de>
> ucSystemType is a variable that is EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed but never used in
> any way.
>
> _prep_type is a variable that is needlessly EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed.
Therse are old PREP stuffs
> But prep_init points to the real problem:
>
> CONFIG_PPC_PREP requires code from arch/ppc/platforms/, but this
> directory is never visited.
>
> What is the correct fix?
> Migrate the code from arch/ppc/platforms/ to arch/powerpc/platforms/ ?
Yes, PREP need to be migrated, but that includes adding some minimum
device-tree support for it among others. And few people still have PREP
machines, I'm not even sure we have access to one here in ozlabs... I
think for 2.6.15, we'd better just disable it in .config for
ARCH=powerpc.
Ben.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linuv 2.6.15-rc1
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 09:31:06 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1131834667.7406.49.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051112222045.GC21448@stusta.de>
> ucSystemType is a variable that is EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed but never used in
> any way.
>
> _prep_type is a variable that is needlessly EXPORT_SYMBOL'ed.
Therse are old PREP stuffs
> But prep_init points to the real problem:
>
> CONFIG_PPC_PREP requires code from arch/ppc/platforms/, but this
> directory is never visited.
>
> What is the correct fix?
> Migrate the code from arch/ppc/platforms/ to arch/powerpc/platforms/ ?
Yes, PREP need to be migrated, but that includes adding some minimum
device-tree support for it among others. And few people still have PREP
machines, I'm not even sure we have access to one here in ozlabs... I
think for 2.6.15, we'd better just disable it in .config for
ARCH=powerpc.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-12 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-12 2:24 Linuv 2.6.15-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2005-11-12 8:17 ` [PATCH] Linux 2.6.15-rc1; fix b2c2 dvb undefined symbol Prakash Punnoor
2005-11-12 17:52 ` Linuv 2.6.15-rc1 Michal Piotrowski
2005-11-12 20:45 ` Michael Buesch
2005-11-12 21:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-11-12 21:37 ` Michael Buesch
2005-11-12 21:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-12 21:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-12 21:57 ` Michael Buesch
2005-11-12 21:57 ` Michael Buesch
2005-11-12 22:20 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-12 22:20 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-12 22:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-11-12 22:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-12 23:51 ` Ulrich Teichert
2005-11-13 9:17 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-11-13 14:46 ` Powerstack II (was: Re: Linuv 2.6.15-rc1) Ulrich Teichert
2005-11-13 1:26 ` [2.6 patch] PPC_PREP: remove unneeded exports Adrian Bunk
2005-11-13 1:26 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-11-13 3:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-13 3:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-14 19:56 ` Linuv 2.6.15-rc1 Tom Rini
2005-11-14 19:56 ` Tom Rini
2005-11-12 22:08 ` Olof Johansson
2005-11-12 22:08 ` Olof Johansson
2005-11-12 22:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-12 22:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-12 22:33 ` Michael Buesch
2005-11-12 22:33 ` Michael Buesch
2005-11-13 16:37 ` Kumar Gala
2005-11-13 16:37 ` Kumar Gala
2005-11-13 20:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-13 20:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-15 18:53 ` Olaf Hering
2005-11-15 18:53 ` Olaf Hering
2005-11-14 1:04 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-11-14 1:04 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-11-12 22:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-12 22:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-12 23:13 ` asm/delay.h missing on powerpc (was: Re: Linuv 2.6.15-rc1) Michael Buesch
2005-11-13 0:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-13 9:54 ` Michael Buesch
2005-11-12 21:28 ` PowerBook G4 boot failure " Alexey Dobriyan
2005-11-12 21:28 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-11-12 22:39 ` Linuv 2.6.15-rc1 John W. Linville
2005-11-12 23:29 ` Jody McIntyre
2005-11-13 9:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-13 11:05 ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-16 6:15 ` [patch] new block/ directory comment tidy Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-11-16 7:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-16 7:57 ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-16 8:08 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-11-16 14:27 ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-14 13:58 ` Linuv 2.6.15-rc1 Alexandre Buisse
2005-11-14 14:32 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2005-11-14 15:24 ` Mark Lord
2005-11-14 18:25 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-11-14 19:22 ` Alexandre Buisse
2005-11-15 9:05 ` Žilvinas Valinskas
2005-11-14 22:26 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-15 9:04 ` Žilvinas Valinskas
2005-11-16 14:32 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-11-14 18:24 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-11-15 0:29 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-15 10:05 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2005-11-15 11:56 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2005-11-15 12:51 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-11-15 13:08 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2005-11-15 14:00 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2005-11-16 5:49 ` Zhu Yi
2005-11-16 9:45 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2005-11-16 10:05 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-11-16 10:37 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2005-11-16 11:40 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2005-11-16 12:18 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-16 12:29 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2005-11-16 13:15 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2005-11-16 13:33 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2005-11-16 16:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-11-16 18:15 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2005-11-16 19:55 ` [PATCH] ipw2200: disallow direct scanning when device is down (was: Linuv 2.6.15-rc1) Pekka Enberg
2005-11-16 20:04 ` Alejandro Bonilla
2005-11-17 5:59 ` Zhu Yi
2005-11-16 16:04 ` Linuv 2.6.15-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2005-11-16 9:33 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-11-16 10:38 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2005-11-16 12:22 ` Zilvinas Valinskas
2005-11-16 5:49 ` abuisse
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