From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021009 Phoenix/0.3 Description of problem: If software suspend is enabled, the kernel cannot be compiled (the official kernel shipped with RH 8.0). The errors are: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14' ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o init/do_mounts.o --start-group arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/char/drm/drm.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o drivers/cdrom/driver.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/net/pcmcia/pcmcia_net.o drivers/net/wireless/wireless_net.o drivers/pnp/pnp.o drivers/video/video.o net/network.o crypto/crypto.o abi/abi.o /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/arch/i386/lib/lib.a --end-group -o vmlinux kernel/kernel.o: In function `drivers_suspend': kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x138e4): undefined reference to `ide_disk_suspend' kernel/kernel.o: In function `drivers_resume': kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x139c1): undefined reference to `ide_disk_resume' kernel/kernel.o: In function `drivers_unsuspend': kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x138d1): undefined reference to `ide_disk_unsuspend' make[1]: *** [kallsyms] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run make menuconfig 2.enable software suspend in kernel hacking section 3.make dep; make bzImage Actual Results: Compilation error. Expected Results: Kernel should compile fine. Additional info:
please don't enable software suspend.