Gordon Farquharson wrote: > I uploaded a patch to fix the FTBFS on arm for 2.6.20-2. > > Currently, the kernel includes several modules that do not build on > ARM. The first set were marked as broken in > patches/bugfix/arm/disable-broken-config-options.patch. This patch > marks two more modules as broken. For this commit, the patch file name > is patches/bugfix/arm/disable-broken-config-options2.patch. Is there a > consensus way of organizing such patches? The current naming scheme > isn't particularly informative, and each patch file disables several > kernel config options. Would it be better to create a patch file for > each config option that is disabled? That method may make it easier to > revert patches in the future. I see this in the build log: WARNING: "cmpxchg" [drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic.ko] undefined! This is interesting because it's the same issue I'm seeing (with etch's kernel) trying to get aufs to work on arm. Isn't this a more general issue that cmpxchg should be available for arm? Why is the existing handler for cmpxchg not being built I wonder? -- see shy jo
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