Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

Russell King
2005-05-06T23:02:27Z

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:36:26AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:26:32AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:38:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > Grump. Have all these regressions received the appropriate level of
> > > > visibility on this mailing list?
> > >
> > > Looking at the http://l4x.org/k/ site, it appears that all -mm versions
> > > have broken ARM support with the defconfig, while Linus kernels at least
> > > build fine.
> >
> > It's very much in an arch maintainer's interest to make sure that
> > cross-compilers are easily obtainable. Any hints?
>
> Been trying to achieve that since it's a FAQ on ARM lists. Even gone to
> the extent of setting up a separate mailing list, getting a volunteer to
> track what people want and do the hard work to build them. That was
> about 6 months ago, and I haven't seen any results.
>
> I was thinking at the time "great, this is one problem which should be
> solved". How silly of me. It seems, yet again, that it comes down to
> a case of "if rmk doesn't do it, it won't get done." Sad but true.
> Now, why do I keep feeling that I'm being taken advantage of all the
> time? Could it be the complete lack of productive help from anyone else.
>
> Anyway, going back to why -mm doesn't work:
>
> arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0xb64): In function `$a':
> : undefined reference to `rd_size'
> make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
>
> So "rd_size" got deleted in -mm kernels without reference to anyone else
> who's using it. Greeeeaaatttt....

And guess what? This patch is now in Linus kernel. Greeeeaaaattttt
stuff whoever did that. Truely wonderful job.

Thanks for taking notice of me a month ago. I really appreciate it.
Especially when stuff gets merged which has already been pointed out
as needlessly _BREAKING_ stuff.

Linus - please revert the change which caused this.

CHK include/linux/compile.h
UPD include/linux/compile.h
CC init/version.o
LD init/built-in.o
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0x9d4): In function `$a':
: undefined reference to `rd_size'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core