When compiling mm-sources-2.6.9_rc1-r5 I get the following error: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 fs/built-in.o(.text+0xac363): In function `mask_ok_common': : undefined reference to `vfs_permission' Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge mm-sources-2.6.9_rc1-r5 2. cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-rc1-mm5 3. make menuconfig 4. make Actual Results: It compiled everything and then failed in the linking phase for bzImage Note, I'm currently running -rc1-mm4 without any problems. Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-amd64-2004.2, gcc-3.4.0, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.9-rc1-mm4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-rc1-mm4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mtune=k8" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mtune=k8" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl acpi adns alsa amd64 apache2 apm app-crypt/gnupg:idea app-crypt/gpgme:smime arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts caps cdr crypt cups curl debug dev-dotnet/mono:nptl dev-util/eric:idl divx4linux doc dvd dvdr encode esd foomaticdb gd gdbm gdm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 guile icq imap imlib ipv6 jabber jack java jpeg kde kde-base/kdeadmin:foreign-package kde-base/kdeadmin:foreign-sysvinit kde-base/kdemultimedia:cdparanoia ladcca ldap libg++ libwww linguas_en linguas_it maildir media-sound/museseq:fluidsynth mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses net-misc/openssh:X509 net-misc/openssh:chroot net-misc/openssh:sftplogging net-misc/openssh:skey net-www/apache:threads net-www/mozilla-firefox:xprint net-www/mozilla:mozp3p net-www/mozilla:mozsvgnls nogcj nptl nsl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sasl sdl slang spellssl sys-devel/libperl:threads tcltk tcpd tetex threads truetype unicode usb xml xml2 xmms xprint zeo zlib"
Upstream issue, we don't support this kernel tree, sorry. Please report the issue to the linux kernel list and/or andrew morton if you can't reproduce it on the latest mm-source release. Thanks.