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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Joerg Friedrich <Joerg.Friedrich@friedrich-kn.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-gitX and pmd_bad() on x86_32
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:48:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763u6xo31.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080425084007.GC14387@stardust.frews.de> (Joerg Friedrich's message of "Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:40:07 +0200")

Joerg Friedrich <Joerg.Friedrich@friedrich-kn.de> writes:

> Yesterday I tried to compile 2.6.25-git5 but I ran into a "Unknown
> Symbol" (pmd_bad)  warning from linker while compiling the nvidia-binary module.

pmd_bad is always optional. You can safely make it return 0 in some local
macro.

> AFAICS, x86_32 is the only architecture where pmd_bad is neither a
> define or a static inline. Including asm/pgtable.h is no longer
> sufficient on x868_32. Is this behaviour intended or is there just a
> EXPORT_SYMBOL missing?

Kernel changes generally don't care about out of tree modules.
Also pmd_bad() is kind of internal anyways.

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-25  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-25  8:40 2.6.25-gitX and pmd_bad() on x86_32 Joerg Friedrich
2008-04-25  9:48 ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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