From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Wessel Subject: Re: linux-next: kgdb tree build failure Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:58:52 -0600 Message-ID: <4B32E6FC.40103@windriver.com> References: <20091224115624.77c910d6.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]:55531 "EHLO mail.windriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751478AbZLXD7B (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:59:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091224115624.77c910d6.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Stephen Rothwell Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Jason, > > Today's linux-next build (i386 defconfig) failed like this: > > drivers/built-in.o: In function `drm_fb_kdb_enter': > drm_fb_helper.c:(.text+0x6567a): undefined reference to `kgdb_active' > drivers/built-in.o: In function `drm_fb_helper_free': > (.text+0x65ec7): undefined reference to `dbg_kms_console_ops_unregister' > drivers/built-in.o: In function `drm_fb_helper_single_fb_probe': > (.text+0x6645d): undefined reference to `dbg_kms_console_ops_register' > > Clearly, the kgdb patches need some more testing. Please remove them > from linux-next until that is done. > > All the kdb patches were dropped from kgdb-next / linux-next. All the embedded type configs build and boot just fine. The root of the problem was that there was a gap in testing all the various combinations where you can builds some things as a module or somethings as a built in. The error you reported is already fixed, but the code base will not be resubmitted until a new round of build and boot tests are completed. Thanks, Jason.