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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [BUILD FAILURE 01/04] Next June 04:PPC64 randconfig
	[drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o]
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On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:01:32PM +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
> CC [M]  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o
> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c: In function ‘comedi_buf_alloc’:
> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: ‘PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: for each function it appears in.)
> make[3]: *** [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [drivers/staging/comedi] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [drivers/staging] Error 2
> make: *** [drivers] Error 2
> 
> Is it still normal to expect this failure ?

No.

> I reported them long back during April:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1065227,

Yes, and I took some patches that were supposed to fix this.  I can't
duplicate this here, care to send a patch that would fix it?

thanks,

greg k-h