Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (akpm-current tree related)

[Josh Triplett]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:16:27PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc64
> allnoconfig) failed like this:
> 
> arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o: In function `.machine_check_queue_event':
> (.text+0x11260): undefined reference to `.irq_work_queue'
> 
> Caused (or exposed) (along with a lot of warnings) by commit 3dd6115cd60b
> ("kconfig: make allnoconfig disable options behind EMBEDDED and EXPERT")
> from the apm-current tree.

Pre-existing, just now triggerable with just "make allnoconfig" rather
than manually turning off other options (like PRINTK) that select
IRQ_WORK.  (One of the goals of that commit: get those options more
widely used and build-tested.)

The following (untested) patch *should* fix this:
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