Hi Kevin, On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 08:28:35 -0700 Kevin Hilman <khil...@linaro.org> wrote: > > However, this same commit does introduce a new build failure (not > present in next-20130806) when ext4 is built as a module: > > ERROR: "dirty_expire_interval" [fs/ext4/ext4.ko] undefined! > make[3]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 > make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2 > > The change below fixes the problem. > > Found when building the mv78xx0_defconfig on ARM.
OK, this raises an interesting question for me. Why does an x86_64 allmodconfig build build ext4 (amongst lots of other things) into the kernel (instead of making them modules)? Well, it seems that normally it doesn't. However when I do my x86_64 allmodconfig builds, I set CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES=n CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=n CONFIG_X86_DECODER_SELFTEST=n via the KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=<file> mechanism and that is enough to make sure that CONFIG_MODULES=n - which is a bit self defeating for an allmodconfig build. :-( In fact, even giving an empty file to KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG= is enough to turn CONFIG_MODULES off ... These tests were done with Linus' tree of today (head commit b7bc9e7 "Merge tag 'trace-fixes-3.11-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace"). More quick testing with an empty file: v3.9 is OK, v3.10 gives CONFIG_MODULES unset. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell s...@canb.auug.org.au
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