Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the staging tree

From: Dave Penkler <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:15:41 +0200

On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 09:40:03AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 04:55:38PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > After merging the staging tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> > allyesconfig) failed like this:
> > 
> > ld: warning: discarding dynamic section .glink
> > ld: warning: discarding dynamic section .plt
> > ld: linkage table error against `nec7210_board_online'
> > ld: stubs don't match calculated size
> > ld: can not build stubs: bad value
[skip]
> > 
> > Caused by commit
> > 
> >   8e4841a0888c ("staging: gpib: Add Frank Mori Hess FPGA PCI GPIB driver")
> > 
> > I have marked that driver as BROKEN for today.
> 
> Thanks, I'll go take your patch from next and add it to my tree for
> this, sorry about the build issues.
> 
> greg k-h
Hi,
All declarations and uses of `nec7210_board_online' match.

Could this be a ppc linker problem ?
-Dave