Greg KH wrote...
> On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 08:21:24PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote...
> >
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.14.69 release.
> > > There are 23 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > let me know.
> >
> > There's a weird build error here test-building one (but not all) of my
> > x86_32 kernel configurations:
> >
> > | GEN .version
> > | CHK include/generated/compile.h
> > | UPD include/generated/compile.h
> > | CC init/version.o
> > | LD init/built-in.o
> > | drivers/built-in.o: In function `pnp_bios_callfunc':
> > | bioscalls.c:(.text+0x5b3c7): undefined reference to `pnp_bios_callpoint'
> > | make[3]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> > | Makefile:831: recipe for target 'vmlinux' failed
> >
> > Some checking suggests this is not caused by the current patch set;
> > instead it's [the] build environment now using gcc 5.3.1 as provided by
> > Debian stretch. The 4.9.2 compiler in jessie works fine.
>
> Can you use 'git bisect' to track down the problem commit?
Could do, I just wanted to avoid doing work somebody else might already
have done.
Long story (that includes reverse bisecting) short: Please cherry-pick
| commit a99aa42d0253f033cbb85096d3f2bd82201321e6
| Author: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Date: Sat Feb 8 08:52:00 2014 +0100
|
| asmlinkage, pnp: Make variables used from assembler code visible
for 3.14. This fixes the described build breakage and does no harm
when using older versions. Obviously gcc 4.x didn't need this so it
hasn't been noticed as a problem so far.
Christoph
[ Andi Cc:'d in case there's something to object or amend ]
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