The patch titled ramdisk driver: make rd_size non-static has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is rewrite-rd-fix-2.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ramdisk driver: make rd_size non-static From: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@xxxxxxxxx> In arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:setup_ramdisk(), rd_size is set from the boot tags. The replacement ramdisk driver has rd_size as static which causes linking to fail when ramdisk is built-in. Signed-off-by: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> Cc: Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/brd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/block/brd.c~rewrite-rd-fix-2 drivers/block/brd.c --- a/drivers/block/brd.c~rewrite-rd-fix-2 +++ a/drivers/block/brd.c @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ static struct block_device_operations br * And now the modules code and kernel interface. */ static int rd_nr; -static int rd_size = CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE; +int rd_size = CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE; module_param(rd_nr, int, 0); MODULE_PARM_DESC(rd_nr, "Maximum number of brd devices"); module_param(rd_size, int, 0); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from byron.bbradley@xxxxxxxxx are git-arm.patch rewrite-rd-fix-2.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html