From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
To: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ACPI modpost failure in 2.6.23-rc1-git2
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:59:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B74546.2090501@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6bffcb0e0708060453l372e15c2h703ede437b4d8935@mail.gmail.com>
Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> On 06/08/07, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:
>> Between 2.6.23-rc1-git1 and 2.6.23-rc1-git2 we started getting the
>> following fatal error during modpost on an x86_64 machine:
>>
>> FATAL: drivers/acpi/video: sizeof(struct acpi_device_id)=20 is not a
>> modulo of the size of section __mod_acpi_device_table=48.
>> Fix definition of struct acpi_device_id in mod_devicetable.h
>> make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
>>
>> This check seems to have been added as part of the following commit:
>>
>> commit 29b71a1ca74491fab9fed09e9d835d840d042690
>> Author: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
>> Date: Mon Jul 23 14:43:51 2007 +0200
>>
>> ACPI: autoload modules - Create ACPI alias interface
>>
>> Compiler version:
>> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux/3.4.4/specs
>> Configured with: ../src/configure -v
>> --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr
>> --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.4
>> --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls
>> --without-included-gettext --program-suffix=-3.4 --enable-__cxa_atexit
>> --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=mt --enable-clocale=gnu
>> --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=gtk
>> --disable-werror i486-linux
>> Thread model: posix
>> gcc version 3.4.4 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13sarge1)
>>
>> We are compiling a 64bit kernel on a machine with a pretty old
>> userspace which is 32bit.
>>
>> Let me know if you need more info.
>>
>> -apw
>
> similar to
>
> Subject : modpost bug breaks ia64 cross compilation
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/30
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/27/418
> Last known good : ?
> Submitter : Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>
> Caused-By : Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
> commit 29b71a1ca74491fab9fed09e9d835d840d042690
> Handled-By : ?
> Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/211
> Status : patch was suggested
>
> Please try this patch http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/2/211
Will do. That is vile though.
It feels like we should be generating this information in the kernel
build and extracting it from the built kernel.
-apw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-06 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-06 11:43 ACPI modpost failure in 2.6.23-rc1-git2 Andy Whitcroft
2007-08-06 11:53 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-08-06 15:59 ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2007-08-07 12:14 ` Andy Whitcroft
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