Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the net tree

On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 19:02 -0700, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

Hi all,

After merging the net tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:

Assembler messages:
Fatal error: can't create drivers/net/ethernet/sun/.tmp_sungem_phy.o: No such file or directory

Presumably caused by commit e689cf4a0427 ("cassini/niu/sun*: Move the Sun
drivers") theough I don't know why.  I tried throwing away my object
directory, but that didn't help.

Ah, ha!  This looks suspicious (change to drivers/net/Makefile):

+obj-$(CONFIG_SPIDER_NET) += spidernet.o ethernet/sun/sungem_phy.o

I have used the net tree from next-20110811 for today.

I am curious, can you compile the Sun GEM support driver?  and if so,
does the Spider Net driver compile?

I know I did not have the PPC hardware to test the compilation of the
Spider Net driver, but I was basing the Makefile changes on similar
changes that the Broadcom driver required, which I did compile test.

I want to resolve this before continuing on with the next set of
patches.