I couldn't find the maintainer for this, so I'm sending it to the list. Problem: ipc/shm.c currently assumes proc filesystem exists, so if CONFIG_PROC_FS is not defined, it will not compile. The function shm_init calls create_proc_read_entry without checking if CONFIG_PROC_FS defined; if it isn't defined that functionality should not be referenced. Solution: add appropriate #ifdef around that line: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- kernel-2.4.2/ipc/shm.c.orig Thu Feb 22 13:13:47 2001 +++ kernel-2.4.2/ipc/shm.c Thu Feb 22 13:13:57 2001 @@ -71,7 +71,9 @@ void __init shm_init (void) { ipc_init_ids(&shm_ids, 1); +#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS create_proc_read_entry("sysvipc/shm", 0, 0, sysvipc_shm_read_proc, NULL); +#endif } static inline int shm_checkid(struct shmid_kernel *s, int id) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I encountered this bug while creating a vastly hacked-down special purpose kernel without /proc support. Thanks, -Eric Weigle -------------------------------------------- Eric H. Weigle CCS-1, RADIANT team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Los Alamos National Lab (505) 665-4937 http://home.lanl.gov/ehw/ -------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/