Re: netconsole build breakage (Re: [GIT] Networking)

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 18:08 +0800, Américo Wang wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:59:20AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > >
> > >FYI, there's a .38-rc1 build failure that triggers rather often:
> > >
> > > drivers/built-in.o: In function `drop_netconsole_target':
> > > netconsole.c:(.text+0x130146): undefined reference to `config_item_put'
> > > drivers/built-in.o: In function `write_msg':
> > > netconsole.c:(.text+0x1301aa): undefined reference to `config_item_get'
> > > netconsole.c:(.text+0x130217): undefined reference to `config_item_put'
> > > drivers/built-in.o: In function `netconsole_netdev_event':
> > > netconsole.c:(.text+0x1302ab): undefined reference to `config_item_get'
> > > ...
> > >
> > >Triggered by this configuration:
> > >
> > > CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS=m
> > > CONFIG_NETCONSOLE=y
> > >
> > 
> > Should be "depends on CONFIGFS_FS=y".
> 
> Sorry for breaking this one folks..
> 
> Where this was left yesterday was to change NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC, DLM and
> OCFS2_FS symbols to use 'select configfs' instead of 'depends on SYSFS
> && CONFIGFS':
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129539400709508&w=2
> 
> but unfortuately this did not make it into .38-rc1 in time..
> 
> Using 'select CONFIGFS_FS' here for NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC with the
> following patches should do the trick.
> 
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/scsi-post-merge-2.6.git for-linus
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nicholas Bellinger (3):
>   net: Make NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC use select CONFIGFS_FS
>   dlm: Make DLM use select CONFIGFS_FS
>   ocfs2: Make OCFS2_FS use select CONFIGFS_FS
> 
>  drivers/net/Kconfig |    3 ++-
>  fs/dlm/Kconfig      |    4 ++--
>  fs/ocfs2/Kconfig    |    3 ++-
>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Ping? This is still broken in Linus's tree as of today ... simple builds like 
allmodconfig still fail.

Thanks,

	Ingo