Re: OMAP3 kernels fail to build

Tony Lindgren
2011-08-09T13:16:29Z

* Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> [110808 04:25]:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 04:39:32PM +0530, Santosh wrote:
> > + Felipe,
> >
> > On Monday 08 August 2011 04:30 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> >> With CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP3=y and CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP4=n, I'm getting this:
> >>
> >> arch/arm/mach-omap2/built-in.o:(.data+0xf99c): undefined reference to `omap4430_phy_init'
> >> arch/arm/mach-omap2/built-in.o:(.data+0xf9a0): undefined reference to `omap4430_phy_exit'
> >> arch/arm/mach-omap2/built-in.o:(.data+0xf9a4): undefined reference to `omap4430_phy_power'
> >> arch/arm/mach-omap2/built-in.o:(.data+0xf9a8): undefined reference to `omap4430_phy_set_clk'
> >> arch/arm/mach-omap2/built-in.o:(.data+0xf9ac): undefined reference to `omap4430_phy_suspend'
> >>
> > I thought below patch was suppose to fix it.
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/963462/
>
> So, the problem has been known about for around a month. Yet the broken
> patch still went upstream.
>
> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
> IF IT IS KNOWN THAT A PATCH IS BROKEN IT MUST NOT BE SUBMITTED TO MAINLINE
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> We've seen other instances of that during this merge window, and Linus
> has responded thusly to these incidents:

Sorry I guess I just went into vacation mode and stopped applying patches.

Regards,

Tony