Re: [PATCH -next] kvm: uses TASKSTATS, depends on NET

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Wed Aug 03 2011 - 17:15:45 EST


On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 12:54:31PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> CONFIG_TASKSTATS just had a change to use netlink, including
> a change to "depends on NET". Since "select" does not follow
> dependencies, KVM also needs to depend on NET to prevent build
> errors when CONFIG_NET is not enabled.
>
> Sample of the reported "undefined reference" build errors:
>
> taskstats.c:(.text+0x8f686): undefined reference to `nla_put'
> taskstats.c:(.text+0x8f721): undefined reference to `nla_reserve'
> taskstats.c:(.text+0x8f8fb): undefined reference to `init_net'
> taskstats.c:(.text+0x8f905): undefined reference to `netlink_unicast'
> taskstats.c:(.text+0x8f934): undefined reference to `kfree_skb'
> taskstats.c:(.text+0x8f9e9): undefined reference to `skb_clone'
> taskstats.c:(.text+0x90060): undefined reference to `__alloc_skb'
> taskstats.c:(.text+0x901e9): undefined reference to `skb_put'
> taskstats.c:(.init.text+0x4665): undefined reference to `genl_register_family'
> taskstats.c:(.init.text+0x4699): undefined reference to `genl_register_ops'
> taskstats.c:(.init.text+0x4710): undefined reference to `genl_unregister_ops'
> taskstats.c:(.init.text+0x471c): undefined reference to `genl_unregister_family'
>
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

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