On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 20:07, Greg KH <g...@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:01:32PM +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
>> CC [M] drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o
>> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c: In function ‘comedi_buf_alloc’:
>> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: ‘PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE’
>> undeclared (first use in this function)
>> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
>> reported only once
>> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c:496: error: for each function it appears
>> in.)
>> make[3]: *** [drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.o] Error 1
>> make[2]: *** [drivers/staging/comedi] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [drivers/staging] Error 2
>> make: *** [drivers] Error 2
>>
>> Is it still normal to expect this failure ?
>
> No.
>
>> I reported them long back during April:
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1065227,
>
> Yes, and I took some patches that were supposed to fix this. I can't
> duplicate this here, care to send a patch that would fix it?
PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE is defined on a few architectures only, namely
frv, m32r, mn10300, sh, and x86[*]. On all others, it will fail.
[*] Interestingly, sparc refers to it in one of its include files,
without providing a
definition, Probably that code is unused.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
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