Re: [Build Failure] 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Build fails with allmodconfig probe_4drives undefined

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On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:25:02 +0530
> Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >   MODPOST 2279 modules
> > ERROR: "probe_4drives" [drivers/ide/ide-core.ko] undefined!
> 
> Caused by ide-mm-ide-add-ide-4drives-host-driver-take-3.patch.  Applying
> that patch alone to current mainline causes the above error after i386
> `make allmodconfig'.
> 
> Just exporting the symbol doesn't fix it, so something funny is going on.

toolchain?  [ standard F7 system w/ updates here ]

> probe_4drives should not be initialised to zero.
> 
> probe_4drives should not be declared extern in drivers/ide/ide.c - please
> declare it in a header which is included by the definition site and by all
> users.

I was aware of the warnings and this was only temporary (it is already fixed
by to-be-posted-today patch which removes deprecated "idex=" kernel parameters
and makes _all_ probe_* variables static).

Thanks,
Bart
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