Re: error while building the kernel Mainline

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

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Am 18.11.2010 19:13, schrieb Justin P. Mattock:
> On 11/18/2010 09:50 AM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Eric Dumazet<eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:48:17 +0100
>>
>>> Let me guess...
>>>
>>> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core is compiled as a module, and ip_vs
>>> statically (in vmlinux) ?
>>>
>>> CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK=m
>>> CONFIG_IP_VS=y
>>>
>>> We probably need some Kconfig magic ;)
>>

Please try whether this patch fixes the problem.

netfilter: fix IP_VS dependencies

When NF_CONNTRACK is enabled, IP_VS uses conntrack symbols.
Therefore IP_VS can't be linked statically when conntrack
is built modular.

Reported-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>



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diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig b/net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig
index a22dac2..70bd1d0 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/Kconfig
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 menuconfig IP_VS
 	tristate "IP virtual server support"
 	depends on NET && INET && NETFILTER
+	depends on (NF_CONNTRACK || NF_CONNTRACK=n)
 	---help---
 	  IP Virtual Server support will let you build a high-performance
 	  virtual server based on cluster of two or more real servers. This