From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: PNX8550 fails to compile in 2.6.17-rc4
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:54:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060611205448.GA27193@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <acd2a5930606111321t11c29c77p83e56615b42902f9@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 12:21:57AM +0400, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> On 6/7/06, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> >This seems to be one of the serial bits for the ip3106 which must have
> >been lost on the way to kernel.org. Unfortunately the original author
> >does no longer take care of the code. I just took a stab at the PNX8550
> >code and it has a significant number of other problems. All small in
> >the sum large enough such that I will mark PNX8550 support broken.
>
> I took an attempt to compile 2.6.16.20 kernel from linux-mips.org for
> PNX8550 and it went a little further but also failed soon:
>
> CC arch/mips/philips/pnx8550/common/platform.o
> /home/vital/work/opensource/linux-
> 2.6.16.20/arch/mips/philips/pnx8550/common/platform.c:101: error: variable
> `pnx8550_usb_ohci_device' has initializer but incomplete type
> /home/vital/work/opensource/linux-
> 2.6.16.20/arch/mips/philips/pnx8550/common/platform.c:102: error: unknown
> field `name' specified in initializer
> /home/vital/work/opensource/linux-
> 2.6.16.20/arch/mips/philips/pnx8550/common/platform.c:102: warning: excess
> elements in struct initializer
> /home/vital/work/opensource/linux-
> 2.6.16.20/arch/mips/philips/pnx8550/common/platform.c:102: warning: (near
> initialization for `pnx8550_usb_ohci_device')
> /home/vital/work/opensource/linux-
> 2.6.16.20/arch/mips/philips/pnx8550/common/platform.c:103: error: unknown
> field `id' specified in initializer
> /home/vital/work/opensource/linux-
> 2.6.16.20/arch/mips/philips/pnx8550/common/platform.c:103: warning: excess
> elements in struct initializer
> ...
> /home/vital/work/opensource/linux-
> 2.6.16.20/arch/mips/philips/pnx8550/common/platform.c:101: error: storage
> size of `pnx8550_usb_ohci_device' isn't known
> /home/vital/work/opensource/linux-
> 2.6.16.20/arch/mips/philips/pnx8550/common/platform.c:112: error: storage
> size of `pnx8550_uart_device' isn't known
> make[2]: *** [arch/mips/philips/pnx8550/common/platform.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [arch/mips/philips/pnx8550/common] Error 2
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 2
>
> Does it make sense to try to fix those? Or will it only result in more
> errore showing up next?
There is a whole number of small problems such as this one but as far
as I look at it all where only simple.
Ralf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-11 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-07 6:52 PNX8550 fails to compile in 2.6.17-rc4 Vitaly Wool
2006-06-07 14:27 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-06-07 15:29 ` reservas
2006-06-07 15:29 ` reservas
2006-06-07 15:35 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-06-11 20:21 ` Vitaly Wool
2006-06-11 20:54 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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