3.5.7.29 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
know.

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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>

commit 84ed8a99058e61567f495cc43118344261641c5f upstream.

E.g. landisk_defconfig, which has CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m:

  ERROR: "__ashrdi3" [fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko] undefined!

For "lib-y", if no symbols in a compilation unit are referenced by other
units, the compilation unit will not be included in vmlinux.  This
breaks modules that do reference those symbols.

Use "obj-y" instead to fix this.

http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/8838077/

This doesn't fix all cases. There are others, e.g. udivsi3.
This is also not limited to sh, many architectures handle this in the
same way.

A simple solution is to unconditionally include all helper functions.
A more complex solution is to make the choice of "lib-y" or "obj-y" depend
on CONFIG_MODULES:

  obj-$(CONFIG_MODULES) += ...
  lib-y($CONFIG_MODULES) += ...

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <[email protected]>
---
 arch/sh/lib/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/sh/lib/Makefile b/arch/sh/lib/Makefile
index 7b95f29..3baff31 100644
--- a/arch/sh/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/sh/lib/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ lib-y  = delay.o memmove.o memchr.o \
         checksum.o strlen.o div64.o div64-generic.o
 
 # Extracted from libgcc
-lib-y += movmem.o ashldi3.o ashrdi3.o lshrdi3.o \
+obj-y += movmem.o ashldi3.o ashrdi3.o lshrdi3.o \
         ashlsi3.o ashrsi3.o ashiftrt.o lshrsi3.o \
         udiv_qrnnd.o
 
-- 
1.8.3.2

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