Hi, I'm building a kernel for a diskless slave node as part of a beowulf cluster I'm working on. I've stripped the kernel down a bit by removing things that I know I won't need, but I'm running into an issue during the compile. The build appears to bomb out when building the diskdump block device... Important notes: Kernel is kernel-2.6.11 from kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm I did the standard source install -- rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm rpmbuild -bp --target=noarch /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec mv /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.11 /usr/src/kernels/kernel-2.6.11 I ran through make menuconfig and modified the config as needed for my systems. The changes I made are listed below: general --> check optimize for size loadable module support --> uncheck all processor type and features --> processor family --> change to p4/xeon processor type and features --> uncheck toshiba & dell laptop support power management options --> uncheck power management support power management options --> cpu frequency scaling --> uncheck cpu frequency scaling Device Drivers --> Block Devices --> uncheck Normal Floppy Disk Support and Parallel Port IDE Device Support Device Drivers --> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL Support --> uncheck Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support Device Drivers --> Multi Device Support (RAID and LVM) --> uncheck Multiple devices driver support (RAID and LVM) I'm getting an error when I do 'make bzImage' as follows: CC drivers/block/diskdump.o drivers/block/diskdump.c: In function 'start_disk_dump': drivers/block/diskdump.c:491: error: '__this_module' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/block/diskdump.c:491: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once drivers/block/diskdump.c:491: error: for each function it appears in.) drivers/block/diskdump.c:491: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/block/diskdump.c:491: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/block/diskdump.c: In function 'register_disk_dump_device': drivers/block/diskdump.c:947: error: '__this_module' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/block/diskdump.c:947: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/block/diskdump.c:947: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/block/diskdump.c: In function 'unregister_disk_dump_device': drivers/block/diskdump.c:959: error: '__this_module' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/block/diskdump.c:959: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/block/diskdump.c:959: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/block/diskdump.c: In function 'register_disk_dump_type': drivers/block/diskdump.c:980: error: '__this_module' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/block/diskdump.c:980: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/block/diskdump.c:980: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/block/diskdump.c: In function 'unregister_disk_dump_type': drivers/block/diskdump.c:992: error: '__this_module' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/block/diskdump.c:992: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/block/diskdump.c:992: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/block/diskdump.c: In function 'init_diskdump': drivers/block/diskdump.c:1090: error: '__this_module' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/block/diskdump.c:1090: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type drivers/block/diskdump.c:1090: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make[2]: *** [drivers/block/diskdump.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [drivers/block] Error 2 make: *** [drivers] Error 2 My .config and build log are located at www.haxorwear.com/buildinfo/. Any help would be much appreciated. I don't think anything is disabled that would affect this, but I also cannot find any patches online or references to this particular error condition for this diskdump.c sourcefile. Hopefully someone else has run into this previously and might shed some insight into my situation. -Tim
