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

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

[Helge Hafting]

  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?

Helge Hafting

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

[Randy Dunlap]

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:00:38 +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?

Hi,
It's a space in my kernel source file.

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~Randy

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

[Adrian Bunk]

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

[Helge Hafting]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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).
>   
I downloaded a new tree.
That file has quite a few single-bit errors in my old tree.
Mostly of the +16 variety.
Seems I have to look for bad memory :-( :-( :-(

Helge Hafting