The patch titled inotify: fix "undefined reference to `anon_inode_getfd'" has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is inotify-fix-undefined-reference-to-anon_inode_getfd.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://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/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: inotify: fix "undefined reference to `anon_inode_getfd'" From: Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fix: fs/built-in.o: In function `sys_inotify_init1': summary.c:(.text+0x347a4): undefined reference to `anon_inode_getfd' found by kautobuild with arms bcmring_defconfig, which ends up with INOTIFY_USER enabled (through the 'default y') but leaves ANON_INODES unset. However, inotify_user.c uses anon_inode_getfd(). Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: John McCutchan <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Robert Love <rlove@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig~inotify-fix-undefined-reference-to-anon_inode_getfd fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig --- a/fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig~inotify-fix-undefined-reference-to-anon_inode_getfd +++ a/fs/notify/inotify/Kconfig @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ config INOTIFY_USER bool "Inotify support for userspace" select FSNOTIFY + select ANON_INODES default y ---help--- Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch inotify-fix-undefined-reference-to-anon_inode_getfd.patch sched-prevent-compiler-from-optimising-sched_avg_update-loop.patch arm-convert-proc-cpu-aligment-to-seq_file.patch arch-arm-include-asm-elfh-forward-declare-the-task-struct.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