From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>, Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 19:31:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130909023152.GA5329@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <522D3153.5000102@roeck-us.net>
On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 07:24:19PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 09/08/2013 06:59 PM, 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?
> >
> Other architectures implement it as define as far as I can see.
Then why would it be a problem?
> >> 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?
> >
> That would be another option.
>
> Actually, turns out Geert submitted a patch to do this for mips already, and Ralf applied it:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/5/111
>
> So please forget this patch. If sh/xtensa actually need it, we can do the same there.
Sounds good to me, consider it forgotten :)
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-09 2:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-09 1:03 [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA Guenter Roeck
2013-09-09 1:59 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-09-09 2:18 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-09 2:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-09-09 2:38 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-09 2:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-09-09 2:55 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-09 3:21 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-09 3:38 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-09-09 2:24 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-09 2:31 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-09-09 2:31 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-09 5:01 ` Heiko Carstens
2013-09-10 17:14 ` Peng Tao
2013-09-11 1:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-09-11 2:25 ` Peng Tao
2013-09-11 2:30 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-11 2:51 ` Peng Tao
2013-09-11 16:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-09-11 21:23 ` Dilger, Andreas
2013-09-11 20:48 ` Dilger, Andreas
2013-09-12 8:01 ` Peng Tao
2013-09-09 13:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-09-09 16:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-09-09 17:08 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-09 17:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-09-09 19:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-09 20:06 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-10 8:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-10 16:44 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-10 16:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-10 17:15 ` Peng Tao
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