Re: drivers/staging/meilhaus build broken with ftrace

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:46:57PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> Hi Roland,
> 
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Roland Dreier wrote:
> 
> > Commit fc4c7355 ("ftrace: Fix the conditional that updates $ref_func")
> > breaks the build of drivers/staging/meilhaus with ftrace enabled:
> > 
> >       CC [M]  drivers/staging/meilhaus/me0600_device.o
> >     No function to reference at scripts/recordmcount.pl line 339, <IN> line 258.
> >     make[4]: *** [drivers/staging/meilhaus/me0600_device.o] Error 9
> > 
> > Yes, that's crazy, but the situation is the following:
> > 
> >  - for some reason I can't fathom, the meilhaus driver declares
> >    me0600_pci_constructor() as weak in drivers/staging/meilhaus/me0600_device.h
> > 
> >  - me0600_pci_constructor() is the only function in .text in
> >    drivers/staging/meilhaus/me0600_device.c
> > 
> > so recordmcount.pl ends up finding only one weak function in .text, and
> > so it never sets $ref_func before calling update_funcs().
> 
> Ug, I figured this would happen. I think I have a patch somewhere that can
> handle this.

Don't make ftrace do a lot of work if it's a bug in the staging driver.
Odds are the code in there should be fixed instead, I'll gladly take a
patch to do that.

thanks,

greg k-h