Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (scsi-post-merge tree related)

From: James Bottomley <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:54:08 -0500

missing linux-scsi added to cc list.

On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 02:47 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 02:44:45 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc allmodconfig)
> > failed like this:
> > 
> > ERROR: ".iscsi_boot_destroy_kset" [drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be2iscsi.ko] undefined!
> > ERROR: ".iscsi_boot_create_host_kset" [drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be2iscsi.ko] undefined!
> > ERROR: ".iscsi_boot_create_target" [drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be2iscsi.ko] undefined!
> > ERROR: ".iscsi_boot_create_initiator" [drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be2iscsi.ko] undefined!
> > ERROR: ".iscsi_boot_create_ethernet" [drivers/scsi/be2iscsi/be2iscsi.ko] undefined!
> > 
> > Caused by commit a33e2a708b2e83ee6111e45c8d3d49a112c3c887 ("[SCSI]
> > be2iscsi: Add support for iscsi boot").  For some reason, commit
> > ed94aa526655d915076dcdbbf4fc962b2a67fcb5 ("[SCSI] be2iscsi: select
> > ISCSI_BOOT_SYSFS") was not sufficient to make sure that
> > CONFIG_ISCSI_BOOT_SYSFS is defined for this build.
> 
> It turns out that drivers/firmware/Kconfig is only included on x86, ia64
> and blackfin.

OK, we need to turn this around then and make be2iscsi only use iscsi
boot if it's enabled ... that's going to be some fun #ifdefing in the
driver.

James