Subject: Re: ppc64 vecemu compile failure

From: Olof Johansson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:55:37 -0600

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:39:25PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 
> 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?

Yes, that is a good question. fphalf isn't near it either.

-Olof