From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935328AbYBUWWs (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:22:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761646AbYBUWWh (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:22:37 -0500 Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:41955 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754614AbYBUWWg (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:22:36 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:22:45 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Nish Aravamudan Cc: Len Brown , Kamalesh Babulal , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - Build Failure at acpi_os Message-ID: <20080221222245.GB30976@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20080216002522.9c4bd0fb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47B73DD8.4030405@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <200802210208.47487.lenb@kernel.org> <29495f1d0802211054s26665d3cy1609d3347867cb16@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <29495f1d0802211054s26665d3cy1609d3347867cb16@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:54:40AM -0800, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > On 2/20/08, Len Brown wrote: > > On Saturday 16 February 2008 14:47, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > > > The 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 kernel with randconfig build option, fails > > > to build on x86_64 machine > > > > > > CC drivers/acpi/osl.o > > > drivers/acpi/osl.c:60:38: error: empty filename in #include > > > drivers/acpi/osl.c: In function 'acpi_os_table_override': > > > drivers/acpi/osl.c:399: error: 'AmlCode' undeclared (first use in this function) > > > drivers/acpi/osl.c:399: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > > > drivers/acpi/osl.c:399: error: for each function it appears in.) > > > make[2]: *** [drivers/acpi/osl.o] Error 1 > > > make[1]: *** [drivers/acpi] Error 2 > > > make: *** [drivers] Error 2 > > > > > > # > > > # Automatically generated make config: don't edit > > > # Linux kernel version: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 > > > # Sun Feb 17 08:07:17 2008 > > > # > > > > > > > CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT=y > > > CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_FILE="" > > > > > > garbage in, garbage out. > > garbage explicitly *allowed* by Kconfig in this case, though. > > > If you don't give this build option a file name where AmlCode lives, > > then the build will be unable to find AmlCode[]. > > > > http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/overridingDSDT.php > > So we have a .config option whose sole purpose is to use another > .config option? That seems ... less than ideal. Is there not some > Kconfig voodoo we can do to only require the one option? Maybe > something like how CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE is done? Adding Sam to the > Cc, in case he has any ideas. Make sure STANDALONE is y for your randconfig builds. See README for examples. STANALONE is there exactly to prevent the above but we cannot control randconfig. Sam