Chris Packham <chris.pack...@alliedtelesis.co.nz> writes: > On 13/03/17 21:52, Chandan Rajendra wrote: >> On Monday, March 13, 2017 03:33:07 AM Chris Packham wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've just attempted to build a powerpc kernel from 4.11-rc2 using a >>> custom defconfig (available on request) and I'm hitting the following >>> error in the early stages of compilation. >>> >>> <stdin>:1325:2: error: #warning syscall statx not implemented [-Werror=cpp] >>> >>> Same thing seems to happen with mpc85xx_basic_defconfig. >>> >>> I don't actually need this syscall so I'd be happy to turn something off >>> to get things building. I did a quick search and couldn't see anything >>> on linuxppc-dev but google keeps correcting "statx" to "stats" so I >>> could have missed it. >>> >> >> The upstream commit >> (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a528d35e8bfcc521d7cb70aaf03e1bd296c8493f) >> that introduces the statx syscall provides a test program. I will wire-up the >> syscall on ppc64, run that test program and post the patch if the test >> program >> works well. >> > > Thanks, I'd be happy to test a patch here. > > In the meantime I worked around the build issue by adding __INGORE_statx > to checksyscalls.sh.
Is it actually breaking the build? It's meant to be a warning, and that's all I get. cheers
