Hi Andrew, It's probably a bug fix that unveils the link errors. tree: git://git.cmpxchg.org/linux-mmotm.git master head: 89331b857195aa00660fb19f1383924e95f7709e commit: d9cc9c2bd830a180cc8ac762a739fcfd3fc6c330 [236/260] linux-next-git-rejects config: sparc-allyesconfig (attached as .config) compiler: sparc64-linux-gcc (GCC) 7.4.0 reproduce: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross git checkout d9cc9c2bd830a180cc8ac762a739fcfd3fc6c330 # save the attached .config to linux build tree GCC_VERSION=7.4.0 make.cross ARCH=sparc If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag Reported-by: kbuild test robot All errors (new ones prefixed by >>): `.exit.data' referenced in section `.exit.text' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.data' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o `.exit.data' referenced in section `.exit.text' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.data' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o `.exit.data' referenced in section `.exit.text' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.data' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o `.exit.data' referenced in section `.exit.text' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.data' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-aspeed.o: In function `aspeed_sdc_probe': >> sdhci-of-aspeed.c:(.text+0xf8): undefined reference to `of_platform_device_create' --- 0-DAY kernel test infrastructure Open Source Technology Center https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all Intel Corporation