Linux Kernel Network Subsystem Patching

[Kevin Cozens]

On 14-01-10 08:53 PM, Aruna Hewapathirane wrote:
> I ran make defconfig, ran make allyesconfig, then make scripts and finally
> make M= net/ to build tehy subsytem alone and this is what it tells me ...
>
> aruna at aruna-desktop:/media/kernel-dev/dev/linux-git$ make M=net/
>
>    WARNING: Symbol version dump /media/kernel-dev/dev/linux-git/Module.symvers
>             is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.
[snip]
>    CC      net/core/neighbour.o
> net/core/neighbour.c: In function ‘pneigh_enqueue’:
> net/core/neighbour.c:1396: error: implicit declaration of function ‘NEIGH_VAR’
> net/core/neighbour.c:1396: error: ‘PROXY_DELAY’ undeclared (first use in
> this function)
> net/core/neighbour.c:1396: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported
> only once
> net/core/neighbour.c:1396: error: for each function it appears in.)
> net/core/neighbour.c:1403: error: ‘PROXY_QLEN’ undeclared (first use in this
> function)

Based on those error messages you are missing a #include. As someone else 
suggested, make sure you can build a working kernel from source using clean 
code before you start applying patches.

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