Re: Linux 3.7-rc1 (uml uapi errors)

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On 10/14/2012 03:27 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The two weeks are up, and I was merging during my trip, so no reason
> for merge window extensions.
> 
> The 3.7-rc1 kernel is out there. There's a few big things worth noting here:
> 
>  - the "uapi" include file cleanups. The idea is that the stuff
> exported to user space should now be found under include/uapi and
> arch/$(ARCH)/include/uapi.
> 
>    Let's hope it actually works. Because otherwise this was just a
> totally pointless pain in the *ss. And regardless, I'm definitely done
> with these kinds of "let's do massive cleanup of the include files"
> forever.



Building um (uml) for x86_64 (defconfig) has lots of errors like:

In file included from include/linux/irq.h:22:0,
                 from include/asm-generic/hardirq.h:12,
                 from arch/um/include/generated/asm/hardirq.h:1,
                 from include/linux/hardirq.h:7,
                 from include/linux/ftrace_event.h:7,
                 from include/trace/syscall.h:6,
                 from include/linux/syscalls.h:78,
                 from init/noinitramfs.c:23:
include/linux/irqnr.h:4:30: fatal error: uapi/linux/irqnr.h: No such file or directory

make[2]: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [init/noinitramfs.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [init/do_mounts.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [arch/um/kernel/irq.o] Error 1






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~Randy