make olddefconfig cmd failing

[Sumit Kumar]

Hi Greg,

Thanks a lot for the quick response.

The kernel seems to build fine with this configuration as well.


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Thanks and Regards,

Sumit


On Sunday 22 April 2018 11:50 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 11:25:13PM +0530, Sumit Kumar wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for the quick response.
>>
>> I installed flex and bison. Now the errors have gone away but there are
>> still some warnings:
>>
>> sumitsum at sumit-personal:~/Documents/linux_kernel/git/kernels/staging$ make
>> olddefconfig
>>    YACC    scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
>>    LEX     scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c
>>    HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
>>    HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/conf
>> scripts/kconfig/conf  --olddefconfig Kconfig
>> #
>> # using defaults found in /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic
>> #
>> /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1125:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for
>> NF_TABLES_INET
>> /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1126:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for
>> NF_TABLES_NETDEV
>> /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1308:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for
>> NF_TABLES_IPV4
>> /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1313:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for
>> NF_TABLES_ARP
>> /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1355:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for
>> NF_TABLES_IPV6
>> /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:1393:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for
>> NF_TABLES_BRIDGE
>> /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:3986:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for
>> HW_RANDOM_TPM
>> /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:4760:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for
>> INTEL_SOC_PMIC_CHTWC
>> /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:4976:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for
>> LIRC
>> /boot/config-4.13.0-37-generic:7712:warning: symbol value 'm' invalid for
>> HWSPINLOCK
>> #
>> # configuration written to .config
>> #
>>
> That's fine, all should be good now, have you tried to build this
> configuration?
>
> Also, 4.13 is really old and obsolete and insecure, I strongly recommend
> using 4.16 at the oldest if you are starting something new like this.
>
> good luck!
>
> greg k-h