Re: 2.6.16.20 build failure.

From: Zephaniah E. Hull
Date: Thu Jun 15 2006 - 19:15:03 EST


On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:49:22PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:46:35 -0400 Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:
>
> > I got this while trying to prune the kernel down to fit into a zImage
> > for testing (have a box that's being stubborn about getting to even the
> > 'Uncompressing Linux...' message).
> >
> > LD vmlinux
> > lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o): In function
> > `kobject_uevent':kobject_uevent.c:(.text+0x25b): undefined reference to
> > `uevent_seqnum'
> > :kobject_uevent.c:(.text+0x261): undefined reference to `uevent_seqnum'
> > :kobject_uevent.c:(.text+0x26d): undefined reference to `uevent_seqnum'
> > :kobject_uevent.c:(.text+0x273): undefined reference to `uevent_seqnum'
> > :kobject_uevent.c:(.text+0x3bf): undefined reference to `uevent_helper'
> > :kobject_uevent.c:(.text+0x3ce): undefined reference to `uevent_helper'
> > :kobject_uevent.c:(.text+0x3ed): undefined reference to `uevent_helper'
> > make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> >
> >
> > The .config is attached.
>
> There is a fix with the bugzilla for this bug.
> See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6306
> and the patch: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=7754&action=view
>
> 2.6.16.20 is 10 days old, probably time for a new one with fixes. :)

NAK, the patch doesn't apply to 2.6.16.20, I'll see if I can figure out
why and get a working patch.

Zephaniah E. Hull.

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