From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267467AbUG2XYp (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:24:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267518AbUG2XYp (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:24:45 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:49885 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267467AbUG2XYb (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:24:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 01:24:27 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Kenneth =?iso-8859-1?Q?Aafl=F8y?= , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc2-mm1: DVB: "errno" undefined Message-ID: <20040729232427.GK23589@fs.tum.de> References: <20040728020444.4dca7e23.akpm@osdl.org> <20040729212737.GH23589@fs.tum.de> <200407300044.13738.lists@kenneth.aafloy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200407300044.13738.lists@kenneth.aafloy.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:44:13AM +0200, Kenneth Aafløy wrote: > On Thursday 29 July 2004 23:27, you wrote: > > I'm getting the following errors when trying to compile 2.6.8-rc2-mm1 as > > modular as possible (using gcc 2.95): > [snip] > > *** Warning: "errno" [drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda1004x.ko] undefined! > > *** Warning: "errno" [drivers/media/dvb/frontends/sp887x.ko] undefined! > > *** Warning: "errno" [drivers/media/dvb/frontends/alps_tdlb7.ko] undefined! > [snip] > > This is still not fixed because we (linuxtv.org) have not submitted the > changes necessary following this thread: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108344912617115&w=2 > > This is about firmware loading in those modules, and we are working on > converting those modules to i2c_kernel to take advantage of firmware_class. > > Could the offending modules be marked as broken or something untill > linuxtv-dvb can test and submit the dvb frontend updates, which should be > sometime soon, but probably not in time for 2.6.8? The removal of errno from this three drivers is currently only in -mm. So unless someone forwards them (they were sent by Andi Kleen as gcc 3.5 build fixes, but he apparently didn't test a modular build) to Linus which hopefully won't happen before the affected modules are properly fixed, Linus' tree isn't affected. > Kenneth cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed