Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:36:26AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:26:32AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:38:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >  > Grump.  Have all these regressions received the appropriate level of
> > >  > visibility on this mailing list?
> > > 
> > >  Looking at the http://l4x.org/k/ site, it appears that all -mm versions
> > >  have broken ARM support with the defconfig, while Linus kernels at least
> > >  build fine.
> > 
> > It's very much in an arch maintainer's interest to make sure that
> > cross-compilers are easily obtainable.  Any hints?
> 
> Been trying to achieve that since it's a FAQ on ARM lists.  Even gone to
> the extent of setting up a separate mailing list, getting a volunteer to
> track what people want and do the hard work to build them.  That was
> about 6 months ago, and I haven't seen any results.
> 
> I was thinking at the time "great, this is one problem which should be
> solved".  How silly of me.  It seems, yet again, that it comes down to
> a case of "if rmk doesn't do it, it won't get done."  Sad but true.
> Now, why do I keep feeling that I'm being taken advantage of all the
> time?  Could it be the complete lack of productive help from anyone else.
> 
> Anyway, going back to why -mm doesn't work:
> 
>  arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0xb64): In function `$a':
>  : undefined reference to `rd_size'
>  make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> 
> So "rd_size" got deleted in -mm kernels without reference to anyone else
> who's using it.  Greeeeaaatttt....

And guess what?  This patch is now in Linus kernel. Greeeeaaaattttt
stuff whoever did that.  Truely wonderful job.

Thanks for taking notice of me a month ago.  I really appreciate it.
Especially when stuff gets merged which has already been pointed out
as needlessly _BREAKING_ stuff.

Linus - please revert the change which caused this.

  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  UPD     include/linux/compile.h
  CC      init/version.o
  LD      init/built-in.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0x9d4): In function `$a':
: undefined reference to `rd_size'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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