Subject: Re: error while building the kernel Mainline

From: "Justin P. Mattock" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:28:05 -0800

On 11/18/2010 10:20 AM, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Am 18.11.2010 19:13, schrieb Justin P. Mattock:
>> On 11/18/2010 09:50 AM, David Miller wrote:
>>> From: Eric Dumazet<[email-masked]>
>>> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:48:17 +0100
>>>
>>>> Let me guess...
>>>>
>>>> net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core is compiled as a module, and ip_vs
>>>> statically (in vmlinux) ?
>>>>
>>>> CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK=m
>>>> CONFIG_IP_VS=y
>>>>
>>>> We probably need some Kconfig magic ;)
>>>
>
> Please try whether this patch fixes the problem.

sure.. right now I'm rebuilding with conntract built-in as suggested by 
eric. then ill go back and test your patch out

>
> netfilter: fix IP_VS dependencies
>
> When NF_CONNTRACK is enabled, IP_VS uses conntrack symbols.
> Therefore IP_VS can't be linked statically when conntrack
> is built modular.
>
> Reported-by: Justin P. Mattock<[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy<[email-masked]>
>
>

Justin P. Mattock