Re: It's me again ...

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 08:58:51PM -0500, Tony Reed wrote:
> I've been building kernels since 2.2.15 or something, and I've never
> had problems before, so bear with me.
> 
> Where is "deacivate_page" defined?  Because, right at the end, I'm
> getting:
> 
> ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux-2.4.14/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \
>         --start-group \
>         arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \
>          drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o drivers/cdrom/driver.o drivers/sound/sounddrivers.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/video/video.o arch/i386/math-emu/math.o \
>         net/network.o \
>         /usr/src/linux-2.4.14/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.4.14/linux/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.4.14/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a \
>         --end-group \
>         -o vmlinux
> drivers/block/block.o: In function `lo_send':
> drivers/block/block.o(.text+0xa8ad): undefined reference to `deactivate_page'
> drivers/block/block.o(.text+0xa8f9): undefined reference to `deactivate_page'
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> 
> 
> So I'm kinda stuck.  

There is a problem in loop.c that references deactivate_page.  This is
probably related.

deactivate_page by linus in 2.4.14, while it was in 2.4.14-pre8, the last
pre for 2.4.14.... :(

Mike