Re: [PATCH] LKCD for 2.5.44 (8/8): dump driver and build files

[Stephen Hemminger]

The variable dump_page_buf is declared with different scope in
dump_base.c and dump_block_dev.c. This causes a link error, but maybe if
LKCD is built as a module, then the symbol export masks the problem.

diff -Nru a/drivers/dump/dump_base.c b/drivers/dump/dump_base.c
--- a/drivers/dump/dump_base.c	Wed Oct 23 11:34:14 2002
+++ b/drivers/dump/dump_base.c	Wed Oct 23 11:34:14 2002
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
 static long dump_nondisruptive_enabled = 1;/* Default:non-disruptive enabled*/
 
 /* Other global fields */
-static void *dump_page_buf;        /* dump page buffer for memcpy()!       */
+void *dump_page_buf;        	   /* dump page buffer for memcpy()!       */
 static void *dump_page_buf_0;      /* dump page buffer returned by kmalloc */
 struct __dump_header dump_header;  /* the primary dump header              */
 struct __dump_header_asm dump_header_asm; /* the arch-specific dump header */