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SubjectRe: [PATCH 183/196] driver core: fix build with SYSFS=n
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:25:30PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> >
> > When SYSFS=n and MODULES=y, build ends with:
> >
> > linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/base/module.c: In function 'module_add_driver':
> > linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/drivers/base/module.c:49: error: 'module_kset' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > make[3]: *** [drivers/base/module.o] Error 1
>
> _PLEASE_ fold such fixes into the patch that introduces the build bugs,
> prior sending your git trees upstream! (just like Andrew does it with
> all patches that come via -mm)

For most of these issues I do merge them together.

However, for some odd kernel configurations, like this one, I didn't, my
appologies. I'll try to be more careful in the future.

> Changes like this (and it now leaked into Linus' tree as well) kill
> bisectability.

The odds that a "normal" person has sysfs turned off and modules
enabled, trying to bisect things, is pretty slim :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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