On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:45:25AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > Subject: arm: allow usage of string functions in linux/string.h > > In introducing a trivial "strstarts()" function in linux/string.h, we > hit: > > arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o: In function `strstarts': > misc.c:(.text+0x368): undefined reference to `strlen' > misc.c:(.text+0x378): undefined reference to `strncmp' > > This is because of "CFLAGS_misc.o := -Dstatic=" in the Makefile. > "static inline strstarts(...)" becomes non-inline, and refers to the > other string ops. > > The simplest workaround is to include asm/string.h. This makes sense > anyway, since lib/string.c won't be linked against this so we can't > use those functions anyway. > > Compile tested here. > > Reported-by: linux-next > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I guess this should go in with the change which caused the breakage. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
