Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

Paul Mundt
2007-07-23T01:40:37Z

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 03:27:21AM +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
> Paul Mundt wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 02:04:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >> Lots of architecture updates (for just about all of them - x86[-64], arm,
> >> alpha, mips, ia64, powerpc, s390, sh, sparc, um..), lots of driver updates
> >> (again, all over - usb, net, dvb, ide, sata, scsi, isdn, infiniband,
> >> firewire, i2c, you name it).
> >>
> > Some of the driver model changes that went in result in a link error:
> >
> > CC init/version.o
> > LD init/built-in.o
> > LD .tmp_vmlinux1
> > drivers/built-in.o: In function `store_uevent':
> > : undefined reference to `kobject_actions'
> > make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> >
> > Haven't bisected it yet, but I suppose it's pretty obvious to whoever made the
> > changes. ;-)
>
> CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n :)
>
> Try this patch :
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/driver/kobject-fix-link-error-when-config_hotplug-is-disabled.patch
>
Yup, that fixes it. I'll just enable it across the defconfigs for now, thanks.