Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 not building on ia64

[Andrew Morton]

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:14:34 +0200 (CEST)
Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> 
> > We're seeing the following error building the 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 kernel on
> > ia64 (it builds ok on x86_64).  2.6.19-rc2-git4 builds ok.
> >   CC [M]  drivers/acpi/processor_throttling.o
> > arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c: In function `sn_setup':
> > arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c:470: error: `ia64_timestamp_clock' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c:470: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> > arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.c:470: error: for each function it appears in.)
> >   CC      fs/ext2/namei.o
> > make[2]: *** [arch/ia64/sn/kernel/setup.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: *** [arch/ia64/sn/kernel] Error 2
> > make: *** [arch/ia64/sn] Error 2
> > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> 
> (added relevant CCs)
> 
> This is caused by 
> statistics-infrastructure-make-printk_clock-a-generic-kernel-wide-nsec-resolution.patch
> 
> I wonder how this could ever compile :) 

grr.  How many times do we have to tell how many people to not put extern
declarations in C files?  This build error is a direct consequence of that
absolutely utterly basic programming mistake.

> Andrew, could you please apply this trivial on top of the original one?

If I had the energy I'd fix it for real, but I don't so I won't.  Thanks.

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