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From: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:29:44 +0000
Subject: Re: [KJ] [Patch] kzalloc conversion in fs/proc
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On 22.02.2006 [22:14:25 +0300], Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:14:39AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > On 2/22/06, Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 00:13 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > > > This looks broken - did you even compile test that patch?
> > > >
> > > > Don't you mean :
> > > >
> > > > return kzalloc(sizeof(struct vmcore), GFP_KERNEL);
> > >
> > > *yuck*, sorry for this, didnt compile test since it doesnt build
> > > with my config. fixed patch below.
> > >
> >
> > Hmm, a simple
> >
> > $ make allyesconfig
> > $ make fs/proc/kcore.o
> 
> How on earth did this succeed? I always, always get

I'm guessing it might have been a tree he's already built a kernel in
before? You usually need to let a normal make go through a few steps
before trying this, so that the asm->asm-$arch symlink is created and a
few other files are generated, IIRC.

Thanks,
Nish

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