From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olof Johansson Subject: INET_LRO as tristate and use from modules (was: Re: [BUILD FAILURE 08/12] Next April 21 : PPC64 randconfig [drivers/net/pasemi_mac_driver.ko]) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:33:19 -0500 Message-ID: <20090421193319.GB20237@lixom.net> References: <1240339984.9110.141.camel@subratamodak.linux.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from lixom.net ([66.141.50.11]:39085 "EHLO mail.lixom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751932AbZDUTav (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:30:51 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1240339984.9110.141.camel@subratamodak.linux.ibm.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Subrata Modak Cc: netdev , Geoff Levand , Linuxppc-dev , Stephen Rothwell , linux-next , sachinp , linux-kernel , themann@de.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:23:03AM +0530, Subrata Modak wrote: > Reported this on 9th April earlier: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/9/276, > > I hope the following Patch will solve this problem as well: > Geoff Levand provided a patch on 17th > April. > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/17/313, No, that's a separate issue. > MODPOST 338 modules > ERROR: ".lro_receive_skb" [drivers/net/pasemi_mac_driver.ko] undefined! > ERROR: ".lro_flush_all" [drivers/net/pasemi_mac_driver.ko] undefined! > WARNING: modpost: Found 1 section mismatch(es). > To see full details build your kernel with: > 'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y' > make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 > make: *** [modules] Error 2 This seems to be a problem with all tristate-capable drivers that use LRO (and uses select INET_LRO in their Kconfig): INET_LRO is a tristate and can thus be a module. Looks like it needs to be a bool instead? -Olof