Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

[Russell King]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:26:32AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:38:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >  > Grump.  Have all these regressions received the appropriate level of
> >  > visibility on this mailing list?
> > 
> >  Looking at the http://l4x.org/k/ site, it appears that all -mm versions
> >  have broken ARM support with the defconfig, while Linus kernels at least
> >  build fine.
> 
> It's very much in an arch maintainer's interest to make sure that
> cross-compilers are easily obtainable.  Any hints?

Been trying to achieve that since it's a FAQ on ARM lists.  Even gone to
the extent of setting up a separate mailing list, getting a volunteer to
track what people want and do the hard work to build them.  That was
about 6 months ago, and I haven't seen any results.

I was thinking at the time "great, this is one problem which should be
solved".  How silly of me.  It seems, yet again, that it comes down to
a case of "if rmk doesn't do it, it won't get done."  Sad but true.
Now, why do I keep feeling that I'm being taken advantage of all the
time?  Could it be the complete lack of productive help from anyone else.

Anyway, going back to why -mm doesn't work:

 arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0xb64): In function `$a':
 : undefined reference to `rd_size'
 make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

So "rd_size" got deleted in -mm kernels without reference to anyone else
who's using it.  Greeeeaaatttt....

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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