Re: PROBLEM: compiling loop device

[Hugh Dickins]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, John Johnson wrote:
> 
> all efforts to build 2.4.14 fail because of loop device
> 
> Slackware 8.0
> gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
> 
> eg. ...
> 
>         /usr/src/linux-2.4.14/arch/i386/lib/lib.a
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.14/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.4.14/arch/i386/lib/lib.a
> \
>         --end-group \
>         -o vmlinux
> drivers/block/block.o: In function `lo_send':
> drivers/block/block.o(.text+0xa86f): undefined reference to
> `deactivate_page'
> drivers/block/block.o(.text+0xa8b9): undefined reference to
> `deactivate_page'
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Enough! Please!

Linus, as many a craftsman of old, has taken to putting a tiny
blemish into each of his final releases: partly as a signature
to distinguish them from Alan's, yes, but more importantly to
avoid attracting the wrath of jealous gods by the perfection
of his releases.  But it is unseemly that _we_ should keep on
drawing attention to this blemish.

In silence, delete the two calls to deactivate_page from your loop.c.

Hugh