Re: 2.6.23-rc9 compile error drivers/video/fbmon.c

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:00:38AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
>  CC      drivers/video/fbmon.o
> drivers/video/fbmon.c: In function ‘fb_parse_edid’:
> drivers/video/fbmon.c:867: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, 
> ‘asm’ or ‘__attrib
> _’ before ‘*’ token
> drivers/video/fbmon.c:867: error: ‘block’ undeclared (first use in this 
> func
> )
>
> This line reads:
>    unsigned char$*block;
>
> Source error, or is my tree simply corrupt?

The $ is a space character in my copy of the tree, so it seems to be a 
corrupted tree with a bit error on your side ($ and the space character 
differ by only one bit).

> Helge Hafting

cu
Adrian

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