Re: linux kernel building for mips malta target board

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> [2005-11-03 16:33]:
> > There was a comment on IRC that there was a register allocation issue which
> > lead to the current code. I'm not sure of the exact details, but I _think_
> > this change ends up being equivilent to the code it replaces.
> 
> It's correct - but triggers plenty of extra warnings and you forgot about
> get_user() which has the same kind of issue.  Also you don't have the
> guarantee that <linux/types.h> has been included, so in order to avoid a
> yet another header file dependency I changed s8, s16 etc. to char, short,
> int, long long.  Working on it but as usual uaccess.h is quite a quiz.

What's the status of this?

With current linux-mips git I still get the problem.  As a reminder,
the error is:

  CC      fs/compat_ioctl.o
fs/compat_ioctl.c: In function 'fd_ioctl_trans':
fs/compat_ioctl.c:1831: error: read-only variable '__gu_val' used as 'asm' output
fs/compat_ioctl.c:1831: error: read-only variable '__gu_val' used as 'asm' output
fs/compat_ioctl.c:1831: error: read-only variable '__gu_val' used as 'asm' output
fs/compat_ioctl.c:1831: error: read-only variable '__gu_val' used as 'asm' output
make[1]: *** [fs/compat_ioctl.o] Error 1

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Martin Michlmayr
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