From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Luck, Tony" Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:55:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] IA64 export symbols empty_zero_page, ia64_ssc Message-Id: <20061012175536.GA8497@intel.com> List-Id: References: <617E1C2C70743745A92448908E030B2AA634B8@scsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com> <20061012001139.1fea6ecf.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061012001139.1fea6ecf.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andrew Morton Cc: Judith Lebzelter , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 12:11:39AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > The problem is that ia64 allmodconfig now bombs out, since depmod treats > this as a hard error. > > IOW, please make allmodconfig work ;) I tried simply swapping "tristate" for "bool": --- a/arch/ia64/hp/sim/Kconfig 2006-10-12 10:45:18.000000000 -0700 +++ b/arch/ia64/hp/sim/Kconfig 2006-10-12 09:43:30.000000000 -0700 @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ depends on HP_SIMSERIAL config HP_SIMSCSI - tristate "Simulated SCSI disk" + bool "Simulated SCSI disk" depends on SCSI endmenu ... and now it fails in a new an diferent way: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 arch/ia64/hp/sim/built-in.o(.init.text+0x9d2): In function `simscsi_init': arch/ia64/hp/sim/simscsi.c:407: undefined reference to `scsi_host_alloc' arch/ia64/hp/sim/built-in.o(.init.text+0xa02):arch/ia64/hp/sim/simscsi.c:411: undefined reference to `scsi_add_host' arch/ia64/hp/sim/built-in.o(.init.text+0xa22):arch/ia64/hp/sim/simscsi.c:413: undefined reference to `scsi_scan_host' presumably because we have CONFIG_HP_SIMSCSI=y but CONFIG_SCSI=m [Which I don't understand ... HP_SIM_SCSI "depends on SCSI", so how did make allmodconfig come up with this combination?]. -Tony P.S. Next layer of the onion is CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD74XX ... perhaps that needs to be "depends on X86"?