[BUILD FAILURE 09/12] Next April 21 : PPC64 randconfig [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o]

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 00:23 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
> > Reported this error on 14th April:
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/14/488,
> > 
> > CC [M]  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o 
> > drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c: In function ‘comedi_buf_alloc’:
> > drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: ‘PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE’
> > undeclared (first use in this function)
> > drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: (Each undeclared identifier
> > is reported only once
> > drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: for each function it
> > appears in.)
> > make[3]: *** [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o] Error 1
> > make[2]: *** [drivers/staging/comedi] Error 2
> > make[1]: *** [drivers/staging] Error 2
> > make: *** [drivers] Error 2
> 
> Subrata, unless someone says otherwise, please do not send randconfig
> failures for drivers in staging - those drivers have bigger problems
> than randconfig failures.

Indeed, in particular this one http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/9/349.

> To avoid them, do this:
> 
> # make randconfig
> # sed -i -e 's/^\(CONFIG_STAGING\)=y/# \1 is not set/' .config
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Recently I discovered that `n' actually works, too!

> # make oldconfig

With kind regards,

Geert Uytterhoeven
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