Bug 51262 – make bzImage fails for mm-sources-2.6.6-r2 when CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD is not set

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Aaron Walker (RETIRED) 2004-05-17 02:45:04 UTC]

make bzImage fails for mm-sources-2.6.6-r2 when CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD is not set.  Changing the .config from

# CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD is not set

to

CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y

fixes the problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. don't configure support for unloading kernel modules (CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD)
2. make bzImage


Actual Results:  
...
  CC      kernel/dma.o
  CC      kernel/uid16.o
  CC      kernel/module.o
kernel/module.c:730: error: redefinition of `add_attribute'
kernel/module.c:382: error: `add_attribute' previously defined here
kernel/module.c:382: warning: `add_attribute' defined but not used
make[2]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [kernel] Error 2
make: *** [bzImage] Error 2


Expected Results:  
Successful completion of `make bzImage`

I'm not a dev, so I am not sure, but this looks like an upstream bug.  Taking a
quick glance at kernel/module.c shows that if CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD is not
defined, then add_attribute() gets defined again (on line 730), albeit an empty
function.

[Comment 1 Jason Cox (RETIRED) 2004-05-17 07:36:33 UTC]

This is true and smething that has been fixed upstream with the latest mm. 2.6.6-mm3 should have this fixed.