Hi Arnd, It's probably a bug fix that unveils the link errors. tree: git://git.cmpxchg.org/linux-mmotm.git master head: 87bf5bee8749a1d3c82d12a55a1e33f6a22da8ed commit: 7d789876f1a932dfa1a70ae8eeba270aa34358ad [7/197] rtc: ds1685: fix ds1685_rtc_alarm_irq_enable build error config: i386-randconfig-nexr0-0226 (attached as .config) reproduce: git checkout 7d789876f1a932dfa1a70ae8eeba270aa34358ad # save the attached .config to linux build tree make ARCH=i386 All error/warnings: drivers/built-in.o: In function `ak8975_set_mode': >> ak8975.c:(.text+0x16c108): undefined reference to `i2c_smbus_write_byte_data' drivers/built-in.o: In function `ak8975_probe': >> ak8975.c:(.text+0x16c29b): undefined reference to `i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data' >> ak8975.c:(.text+0x16c348): undefined reference to `i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data' drivers/built-in.o: In function `ak8975_read_raw': >> ak8975.c:(.text+0x16c66b): undefined reference to `i2c_smbus_read_byte_data' >> ak8975.c:(.text+0x16c6a2): undefined reference to `i2c_smbus_read_byte_data' >> ak8975.c:(.text+0x16c6c6): undefined reference to `i2c_smbus_read_byte_data' >> ak8975.c:(.text+0x16c751): undefined reference to `i2c_smbus_read_word_data' drivers/built-in.o: In function `ak8975_driver_init': >> ak8975.c:(.init.text+0x10e35): undefined reference to `i2c_register_driver' drivers/built-in.o: In function `ak8975_driver_exit': >> ak8975.c:(.exit.text+0x1841): undefined reference to `i2c_del_driver' --- 0-DAY kernel test infrastructure Open Source Technology Center http://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/kbuild Intel Corporation