Re: [PATCH] 2.6.14-rc5 fails to build with out CONFIG_FUTEX

[Andrew Morton]

George Anzinger <george@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > George Anzinger <george@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >>Both kernel/exit.c and fs/dcache.c refer to functions in kernel/futex.c which is not built unless 
> >>CONFIG_FUTEX is true.  This causes a build failure at link time:
> >>   LD      vmlinux
> >>kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xab58): In function `do_exit':
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-rc/kernel/exit.c:851: undefined reference to `exit_futex'
> >>fs/built-in.o(.text+0x1b2bf): In function `dput':
> >>/usr/src/linux-2.6.14-rc/fs/dcache.c:165: undefined reference to `futex_free_robust_list'
> > 
> > 
> > This problem is specific to the robust-futexes patch.
> 
> And that appears to be in rc5, right?
> 

Nope.  Your patch is not applicable to mainline kernels.
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