On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 11:25:13PM +0530, Sumit Kumar wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Thanks a lot for the quick response. > > I installed flex and bison. Now the errors have gone away but there are > still some warnings: > > sumitsum@sumit-personal:~/Documents/linux_kernel/git/kernels/staging$ make > olddefconfig > YACC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c > LEX scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o > HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf > scripts/kconfig/conf --olddefconfig Kconfig > # > # using defaults found in /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic > # > /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1125:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for > NF_TABLES_INET > /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1126:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for > NF_TABLES_NETDEV > /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1308:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for > NF_TABLES_IPV4 > /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1313:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for > NF_TABLES_ARP > /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1355:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for > NF_TABLES_IPV6 > /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1393:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for > NF_TABLES_BRIDGE > /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:3986:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for > HW_RANDOM_TPM > /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:4760:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for > INTEL_SOC_PMIC_CHTWC > /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:4976:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for > LIRC > /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:7712:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for > HWSPINLOCK > # > # configuration written to .config > # > That's fine, all should be good now, have you tried to build this configuration? Also, 4.13 is really old and obsolete and insecure, I strongly recommend using 4.16 at the oldest if you are starting something new like this. good luck! greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies