Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: fix a build error on alpha and m68k

From: "Frédéric Weisbecker" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:57:36 +0100

2008/10/30 Alexey Dobriyan <[email-masked]>:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:34:33PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 07:27:48PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>> > When tracing is enabled, some arch have included <linux/irqflags.h>
>> > on their <asm/system.h> but others like alpha or m68k don't.
>> >
>> > Build error on alpha:
>> >
>> > kernel/trace/trace.c: In function 'tracing_generic_entry_update':
>> > kernel/trace/trace.c:658: error: implicit declaration of function 'irqs_disabled_flags'
>
> FYI, this error still exists in mainline (7f82f000ed030d1108b4de47d9e2d556092980c6).
>

Thanks.

Yes Steven sent a patch to correct it: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/24/205
But it has not been applied yet (still in discussion?).