Re: [RFC][patch 0/1] fix allnoconfig for net-2.6.24

[ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org (Eric W. Biederman)]

dlezcano-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org writes:

> The kernel compilation fails with allnoconfig with an unresolved to init_net.
> I tryed to figure out how to fix that. The problem is raised because the
> init_net
> variable is defined as extern in net_namespace.h while the variable is declared
> in net_namespace.c. This file is not compiled because of the config options and
> that leads to the compilation error.
>
> I noticed the uts namespace defines the init_uts_ns in init/version.c, so I
> moved
> the init_net to this file too. The compilation error is fixed.
>
> But I don't like really this approach because:
> 	1 - we fall under a part not covered by the network
> 	2 - we add a new include net_namespace.h in version.c
>
> Does this fix seems correct ? I just want to fix it for now to have net-2.6.24
> compiling for all configs.

Thanks for the testing and catching all of the little nit picky things.

Where is init_net used that is a problem with allnoconfig?

Eric