Re: [Xen-devel] current hg unstable tree: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o: In function `safe_halt': undefined reference to `rcu_needs_cpu'

[Hans-Christian Armingeon <mog.johnny@xxxxxxx>]

Am Donnerstag, 15. Juni 2006 12:26 schrieben Sie:
> I was worried that I had broken a standard part of the xen build process
> when I submitted my patch but I think you are doing something that is
> not supported.
> 
> The long-term solution to your problem is clearly to complete the
> upstream merge of the xen patches with mainstream Linux.
> 
> There are some issues with making it easier for people to try to use
> non-default kernels.  It's going to make recreating bugs harder and
> may cause some spurious problems when patches apply cleanly but are
> incompatible with the chosen kernel.

So using the latest 2.6.16.x kernel isnt actually supported?

Or is that supported, but using a 2.6.17.x kernel wouldn't be supported?

Johnny

> 
> Harry.
> 
> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 11:47 +0200, Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote:
> > Hi Harry,
> > 
> > I wanted mkbuildtree to automatically pick the patches, that are needed. 
> > Some of the 2.6.16.13 patches seem to be already in the mainline kernel 
> > tree.
> > 
> > I can cleanly apply rcu_needs_cpu_patch to 2.6.16.20.
> > 
> > Johnny
> > 
> > Am Mittwoch, 14. Juni 2006 12:55 schrieben Sie:
> > > There's a patch in patches/linux-2.6.16.13 called rcu_needs_cpu.patch
> > > which provides rcu_needs_cpu for the 2.6.16.13 kernel which is the one I
> > > tested against when I submitted the rcu_needs_cpu_patch.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure how you are getting the 2.6.16.20 kernel.  If this is a
> > > standard part of the xen-unstable build that is supposed to work then
> > > let me know how to invoke it and I will fix up the problem.
> > > 
> > > But maybe you have pulled 2.6.16.20 manually, applied the 2.6.16.13
> > > patches manually and then done an hg pull and got the new patch in the
> > > patches directory but failed to apply it to your kernel?
> > > 
> > > Harry
> > 
> 
> 

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