Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 08 Sep 2013 19:24:19 -0700 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA |
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On 09/08/2013 06:59 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 06:03:00PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> mips allmodconfig fails with >> >> ERROR: "copy_from_user_page" [drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/libcfs/libcfs.ko] >> undefined! >> >> which is due to LUSTRE using copy_from_user_page which is not exported by any >> architecture. > > Any, or just these arches? > Other architectures implement it as define as far as I can see.
>> Unfortunately, LUSTRE can only be built as module, so there is no >> easy fix. > > Can't we just export the functions for those arches? Surely lutre > isn't the first/only driver that needs this? > That would be another option.
Actually, turns out Geert submitted a patch to do this for mips already, and Ralf applied it:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/5/111
So please forget this patch. If sh/xtensa actually need it, we can do the same there.
Guenter
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