From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rajesh Shah Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 23:16:18 +0000 Subject: Re: tiger_defconfig build fails for 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 Message-Id: <20050406161617.A32116@unix-os.sc.intel.com> List-Id: References: <20050405165047.A21553@unix-os.sc.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <20050405165047.A21553@unix-os.sc.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 03:48:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Do we know what the problem was with > > add-a-clear_pages-function-to-clear-pages-of-higher.patch? Was it a build > > error or a compile error? > > err, s/build/runtime/ That was a compile error too: arch/ia64/kernel/ia64_ksyms.c:41: error: `clear_page' undeclared here (not in a function) arch/ia64/kernel/ia64_ksyms.c:41: error: initializer element is not constant arch/ia64/kernel/ia64_ksyms.c:41: error: (near initialization for `__ksymtab_clear_page.value') arch/ia64/kernel/ia64_ksyms.c:41: error: __ksymtab_clear_page causes a section type conflict make[1]: *** [arch/ia64/kernel/ia64_ksyms.o] Error 1 After reverting the patch, the resulting kernel booted fine for me. By the way, I noticed that the automated OSDL PLM compile failed too: http://www.osdl.org/plm-cgi/plm?module=patch_info&patch_idC61 Their .config was different from mine but it had both the compile failures I saw, plus some more. Rajesh