Bug 8242

Summary:	BLK_DEV_MD=m without CONFIG_NET misses csum_partial
Product:	IO/Storage	Reporter:	Randy Dunlap (randy.dunlap)
Component:	MD	Assignee:	io_md
Status:	CLOSED PATCH_ALREADY_AVAILABLE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bunk
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.21-rc4-git4	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:

Description Randy Dunlap 2007-03-20 20:04:12 UTC

Most recent kernel where this bug did *NOT* occur:  none
Distribution:  SLES 10 (not applicable)
Hardware Environment:  x86_64
Software Environment:
Problem Description:

drivers/md/md.c calls csum_partial().

IF CONFIG_NET=n and BLK_DEV_MD=y, if arch/*/lib/Makefile
puts csum-partial.o or checksum.o into lib-y, the function
is present.  (Of course, if the function is placed in
obj-y, there is no problem.)

If CONFIG_NET=n and BLK_DEV_MD=n, if arch/*/lib/Makefile
puts csum-partial.o or checksum.o into lib-y, the function
is removed from the kernel image due to having no built-in
callers.

Steps to reproduce:

Build a kernel with CONFIG_NET-n and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=m.
Unless csum_partial() is built and kept by some arch Makefile,
the result is:
ERROR: "csum_partial" [drivers/md/md-mod.ko] undefined!
make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
make: *** [modules] Error 2

Comment 1 Adrian Bunk 2008-04-28 02:27:28 UTC

md no longer uses csum_partial