Re: 2.6.18-rc6-mm1

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:19:52 -0700
Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 01:13 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc6/2.6.18-rc6-mm1/
> > 
> 
> compiling a kernel with allnoconfig produces the following error:
> 
>   CHK     include/linux/version.h
>   CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
>   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
>   GEN     .version
>   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
>   UPD     include/linux/compile.h
>   CC      init/version.o
>   LD      init/built-in.o
>   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> mm/built-in.o: In function `writeback_congestion_end':
> (.text+0x5d3b): undefined reference to `blk_congestion_end'
> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> 
> The problem is that the block layer isn't configured and this is where
> the blk_congestion_end symbol comes from.
> 
> This comes from the git-nfs.patch.
> 

Yup, CONFIG_BLOCK=n is bust, sorry.  It's relatively simple to fix but I've
basically thrown up my hands and decided that we can tidy this up once
everything hits mainline.  Or Jens or Trond (whoever merges second) will
fix it prior to merging.
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