Doing build from scratch from rc17.iso Partitioned disk and started from scratch using install doc #make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install rcupdate.c: In function 'rcu_prepare_polling': rcupdate.c:88: 'smp_num_cpus' undeclared rcupdate.c: In function 'rcu_polling': rcupdate.c:144: 'smp_num_cpus' undeclared make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.4.18/kernel'
Does not fail if you enable multi processor support when doing the make menuconfig.
hrm, thanks for the bug report. We'll try to get a new kernel out soon.
OK, I masked this kernel.