From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:43:49 +0000
Subject: Re: Kernel Build failing due to "trying to assign nonexistent symbol"
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On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 06:53:37PM +0530, Karthik Gopalakrishnan wrote:
>    I have added a few new files in the console directory to try to
> support a new console device. I am trying to get them to compile. I
> have made the necessary   obj-${CONFIG_FUNC_FOO}  += foo_file.o
> change to the Makefile in the "/drivers/video/console/" directory. I
> have also set CONFIG_FUNC_FOO=y in the .config file. However, when I
> try to build the kernel, I get the following message.

You need to add a Kconfig stanza for FUNC_FOO.  Look in
drivers/video/console/Kconfig for examples.