[lustre-devel] Build Dependency Issue in Lustre Mainline Linux

[Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>]

On 11/06/2015 06:10 PM, Simmons, James A. wrote:
> 
>> Just did a fresh git pull --rebase and tried to do 'make deb-pkg' with
>> an Ubuntu config (which enables lustre). I got the following:
>>
>> depmod: WARNING: found 2 modules in dependency cycles!
>> depmod: WARNING:
>> /home/arges/src/kernel/linux/./debian/tmp/lib/modules/4.3.0+/kernel/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/lnet.ko
>> in dependency cycle!
>> depmod: WARNING:
>> /home/arges/src/kernel/linux/./debian/tmp/lib/modules/4.3.0+/kernel/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/libcfs.ko
>> in dependency cycle!
>> ./scripts/depmod.sh: line 57: 16836 Killed                  "$DEPMOD"
> 
> I solved your problem. If you delete IOC_LIBCFS_PING_TEST ioctl case  from libcfs/libcfs/module.c it work again. 
> That ioctl has not been is use for some time and it can be removed. What is happening is libcfs_nid2str is being
> called which requires lnet.ko now. This is a layer violation. I will be sending a patch very shortly.
> 

Thanks, good to hear.
--chris