Subject: Re: ppc64 vecemu compile failure

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:39:25 +1100

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 18:56 -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:03:37AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> > on latest git since driver subsys merge on powerpc64:
> > 
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o: In function `fphalf':
> > vecemu.c:(.toc+0x1360): undefined reference to `devices_subsys'
> > make[3]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

> It's a known problem, fixed by:
> 
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=16491

But begs the question, why is the linker lying to use about vecemu.c
using devices_subsys?

cheers

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