From: "Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>
To: "Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: "Sam Ravnborg" <sam@ravnborg.org>, "Len Brown" <lenb@kernel.org>,
"Kamalesh Babulal" <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
"Andy Whitcroft" <apw@shadowen.org>
Subject: Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - Build Failure at acpi_os
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:21:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29495f1d0802221021i15f3bcdepcf2ea9884c7776c3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080222101344.821ea02a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
On 2/22/08, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:08:15 +0100 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:38:52PM -0800, Nish Aravamudan wrote:
> > > On 2/21/08, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:54:40AM -0800, Nish Aravamudan wrote:
> > > > > On 2/20/08, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> 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.
> > >
> > > Hrm, if this is needed for randconfig to work, perhaps randconfig
> > > itself should somehow be specifying it?
> > >
> > > > STANALONE is there exactly to prevent the above but we cannot
> > > > control randconfig.
> > >
> > > While setting STANDALONE does fix the above, it doesn't answer the
> > > more basic question I had -- do we really need both .config options in
> > > this case? If it's simply a case of "That's how it is, won't be fixed,
> > > there are higher priorities", that's good enough by me. Just seems a
> > > shame that we have an option to enable another option, which is
> > > required for the first option to be sensible -- seems like we should
> > > only need the second option...
> >
> > I really do not see what problem you are trying to address.
> >
> > STANDALONE is there as an easy way to turn of the options that requires
> > sensible input to make a kernel compile.
> >
> > And that makes _perfect_ sense when you do randconfig builds.
>
>
> > CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT=y
> > CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_FILE=""
>
>
> Is there a way to generate (in Kconfig language) the boolean
> CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT based on whether CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_FILE
> == "" or != "" ? I tried to muck around with that last night but
> couldn't get it to work. I.e., just present the ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_FILE
> config symbol to the user and then generate the ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT bool
> based on the string value.
Thanks for re-expressing my question, Randy, this is exactly what I'm wondering.
Thanks,
Nish
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-22 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 134+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-16 8:25 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 Andrew Morton
2008-02-16 10:59 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1: build failure (x86) Marcin Slusarz
2008-02-16 11:09 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-16 11:37 ` Marcin Slusarz
2008-02-17 0:22 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-02-17 9:54 ` Marcin Slusarz
2008-02-17 1:37 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-02-17 9:56 ` Marcin Slusarz
2008-02-19 18:51 ` Russell Leidich
2008-02-16 16:15 ` [BUG] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - kernel oops while bootup on s390x Kamalesh Babulal
2008-02-16 19:45 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-16 19:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-16 19:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-17 3:40 ` Kamalesh Babulal
2008-02-17 9:06 ` Heiko Carstens
2008-02-18 14:08 ` Kamalesh Babulal
2008-02-16 17:21 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 Randy Dunlap
2008-02-16 17:31 ` [PATCH]2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - Build Failure at security/keys/compat.c on powerpc Kamalesh Babulal
2008-02-16 17:48 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (wakeup) Randy Dunlap
2008-02-17 1:18 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-02-17 1:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-17 2:19 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-17 3:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-17 4:38 ` [PATCH v2] " Randy Dunlap
2008-02-17 4:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-17 4:47 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-17 20:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-02-17 21:07 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-17 21:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-17 21:28 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-17 21:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-17 21:46 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-17 21:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-16 19:47 ` [BUILD_FAILURE] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - Build Failure at acpi_os Kamalesh Babulal
2008-02-16 20:01 ` Laura Garcia
2008-02-21 7:08 ` Len Brown
2008-02-21 18:54 ` Nish Aravamudan
2008-02-21 22:22 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-22 1:38 ` Nish Aravamudan
2008-02-22 18:08 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-22 18:12 ` Nish Aravamudan
2008-02-22 18:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-22 18:21 ` Nish Aravamudan [this message]
2008-02-22 18:27 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-22 18:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-22 18:56 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-22 19:25 ` [PATCH] " Randy Dunlap
2008-02-23 5:41 ` Len Brown
2008-02-23 15:33 ` Kamalesh Babulal
2008-02-16 21:27 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1: WARNING at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:129 Laurent Riffard
2008-02-16 21:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-18 4:58 ` Brown, Len
2008-02-18 5:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-18 19:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-18 21:05 ` Laurent Riffard
2008-02-18 21:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-24 0:44 ` Gabriel C
2008-02-24 2:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-25 16:31 ` Gabriel C
2008-02-25 22:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-25 23:33 ` Gabriel C
2008-02-25 23:59 ` Gabriel C
2008-03-01 15:40 ` Mirco Tischler
2008-03-02 15:53 ` Fabio Checconi
2008-03-02 16:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-03-03 8:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-03 8:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-03 10:21 ` Fabio Checconi
2008-03-02 20:40 ` Laurent Riffard
2008-03-02 23:35 ` Mirco Tischler
2008-02-17 4:10 ` [BUG] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - Kernel panic while bootup caused by signal_group_exit() Kamalesh Babulal
2008-02-17 4:50 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-17 5:02 ` Kamalesh Babulal
2008-02-17 12:41 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-02-20 19:34 ` Rik van Riel
2008-02-20 20:04 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-02-20 22:53 ` Rik van Riel
2008-02-28 13:13 ` Cedric Le Goater
2008-02-20 20:07 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-17 5:08 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 Kamalesh Babulal
2008-02-17 5:24 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 Andrew Morton
2008-02-17 7:36 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 Kamalesh Babulal
2008-02-17 5:16 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (x64 thermal build failure) Randy Dunlap
2008-02-17 5:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-18 10:15 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-02-18 12:13 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-19 15:55 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-02-19 17:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-19 22:00 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-02-19 22:05 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-19 23:21 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-20 7:21 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-02-20 9:55 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-17 5:32 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (build failure) Randy Dunlap
2008-02-17 5:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-17 19:52 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-17 20:12 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-02-17 11:23 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-02-17 17:54 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-17 6:25 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 Joel Becker
2008-02-17 6:32 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 Joel Becker
2008-02-17 6:51 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 Andrew Morton
2008-02-17 10:50 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1: new create_proc_entry() users Alexey Dobriyan
2008-02-18 13:01 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-18 16:13 ` Daniel Walker
2008-02-19 22:25 ` Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2008-02-19 23:59 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-18 0:14 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (cifs build errs) Randy Dunlap
2008-02-18 4:10 ` Steve French
2008-02-18 0:16 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 Randy Dunlap
2008-02-18 9:34 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 Andrew Morton
2008-02-18 5:17 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (x86 MCE build error) Randy Dunlap
2008-02-18 6:03 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-02-18 13:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-18 17:13 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (cciss " Randy Dunlap
2008-02-19 0:08 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 Kevin Winchester
2008-02-19 0:15 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 Andrew Morton
2008-02-19 0:22 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 Steven Rostedt
2008-02-19 1:15 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 Kevin Winchester
2008-02-20 21:14 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - several bugs and a crash Tilman Schmidt
2008-02-20 21:50 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-21 11:28 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-21 16:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-02-21 16:34 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-02-22 0:40 ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-02-22 0:52 ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-02-22 17:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-02-25 8:54 ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-02-27 16:37 ` nf_conntrack fix smp_processor_id() in preemptible code (was: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - several bugs and a crash) Tilman Schmidt
2008-02-27 16:47 ` nf_conntrack fix smp_processor_id() in preemptible code Patrick McHardy
2008-02-21 12:38 ` 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - several bugs and a crash Andrew Morton
2008-02-21 16:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-22 0:10 ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-02-21 19:36 ` Dave Hansen
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