Re: linux-next: net tree build failure

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Jan 11 2010 - 03:02:01 EST


From: Stephen Rothwell <Stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:42:05 +1100

> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next build (powerpc_allnoconfig) failed like this:
>
> lib/lib.a(vsprintf.o): In function `pointer':
> vsprintf.c:(.text+0x21ba): undefined reference to `byte_rev_table'
> vsprintf.c:(.text+0x21c2): undefined reference to `byte_rev_table'
>
> Caused by commit bc7259a2ce764ea16200eb9e53f6e136e918d065
> ("lib/vsprintf.c: Add %pMF to format FDDI bit reversed MAC addresses")
> from the net tree.
>
> I applied the following fixup patch (and can carry it for a while):
> (BTW after this patch, CONFIG_BITREVERSE appears to not be used anywhere
> except where is is selected in Kconfig files.)
>
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:37:16 +1100
> Subject: [PATCH] net: vsprintf now depends on the byte_rev_table
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks I'll apply this and then add a commit which kills
off CONFIG_BITREVERSE.

Thanks!
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