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

From: Mike Christie <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:59:47 -0500

On 08/02/2010 11:47 AM, 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.
>

I think the iscsi_boot_sysfs module should just be moved to 
drivers/scsi. It is a generic scsi/iscsi interface to export iscsi boot 
info and is not tied to boot. I will send a patch in a couple minutes.