From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:54:58 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:25792 "EHLO bacchus.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133866AbWFKUyu (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:54:50 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.dhis.org (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5BKsnkI027416; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:54:49 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k5BKsm64027415; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:54:48 +0100 Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:54:48 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Vitaly Wool Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: PNX8550 fails to compile in 2.6.17-rc4 Message-ID: <20060611205448.GA27193@linux-mips.org> References: <20060607105221.7b15b243.vitalywool@gmail.com> <20060607142702.GA20184@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 11711 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 12:21:57AM +0400, Vitaly Wool wrote: > On 6/7/06, Ralf Baechle 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