Subject: linux-next: build failure after merge of the akpm-current tree

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:01:51 +1100

Hi Andrew,

After merging the akpm-current tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:

powerpc-linux-ld: unrecognized option '--no-dynamic-linker'

Caused by patch

  "powerpc: add purgatory for kexec_file_load implementation"

I have disabled KEXEC_FILE for now:

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 15:52:55 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] disable KEXEC_FILE on powerpc for now

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 2d86643f280d..b72c1c7afcf0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -475,6 +475,7 @@ config KEXEC_FILE
 	depends on PPC64
 	depends on CRYPTO=y
 	depends on CRYPTO_SHA256=y
+	depends on BROKEN
 	help
 	  This is a new version of the kexec system call. This call is
 	  file based and takes in file descriptors as system call arguments
-- 
2.10.2

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell