** Description changed:

+ == Precise SRU Justification ==
+ 
+ Current kernel FTBFS if power_supply is set as a module.  This has never
+ been an issue as its built-in into the kernel.  It fails with:
+ 
+  "sysfs_create_link_nowarn" [drivers/power/power_supply.ko] undefined!"
+ 
+ as this symbol is not exported into modules.
+ 
+ == Fix ==
+ 
+ Upstream commit 93278d151e7bd35ccd0e083d7f2d8123cbaf36f8 fixes the build
+ failure.
+ 
+ == Impact ==
+ 
+ Impact shouldn't be very high.  Only users building the kernel from source
+ and setting this as a module.
+ 
+ == Test Case ==
+ 
+ Build the kernel, setting CONFIG_POWER_SUPPLY=m in the configuration.
+ 
+ 
================================================================================
+ 
  When building 3.2.0-25.40 with make-kpkg I get the following error:
  
  ERROR: "sysfs_create_link_nowarn" [drivers/power/power_supply.ko]
  undefined!
  
  which I believe is caused by the commits pulled in to fix 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/568064
  The symbol sysfs_create_link_nowarn is not exported to modules, so the build 
fails. I'm not really sure why the build in proposed didn't fail. The following 
commit fixes the issue:
  
- 
  From 93278d151e7bd35ccd0e083d7f2d8123cbaf36f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
  From: Anton Vorontsov <[email protected]>
  Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 19:17:25 +0400
  Subject: [PATCH] power_supply: Drop usage of nowarn variant of
-  sysfs_create_link()
+  sysfs_create_link()
  
  The function is not exported to modules, plus we do want to catch anyone
  who tries to create complex hierarchy (in that case we'd need to change
  'powers' symlink to a directory, probably under a different name to not
  break ABI).
  
  This patch fixes the following build error:
  
-  ERROR: "sysfs_create_link_nowarn" [drivers/power/power_supply.ko]
+  ERROR: "sysfs_create_link_nowarn" [drivers/power/power_supply.ko]
  undefined!
  
  Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
  Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <[email protected]>
  ---
-  drivers/power/power_supply_core.c |    2 +-
-  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+  drivers/power/power_supply_core.c |    2 +-
+  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
  
  diff --git a/drivers/power/power_supply_core.c 
b/drivers/power/power_supply_core.c
  index bc82f95..6ad6127 100644
  --- a/drivers/power/power_supply_core.c
  +++ b/drivers/power/power_supply_core.c
  @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(power_supply_get_by_name);
-  
-  int power_supply_powers(struct power_supply *psy, struct device *dev)
-  {
+ 
+  int power_supply_powers(struct power_supply *psy, struct device *dev)
+  {
  -     return sysfs_create_link_nowarn(&psy->dev->kobj, &dev->kobj, "powers");
  +     return sysfs_create_link(&psy->dev->kobj, &dev->kobj, "powers");
-  }
-  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(power_supply_powers);
-  
- -- 
+  }
+  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(power_supply_powers);
+ 
+ --
  1.7.9.5

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