From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fbdev: work around old compiler bug
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:45:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090623164505.GA3101@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090623154428.e2f4ddc9.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 03:44:28PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> When building with a 4.1.x compiler on powerpc64 (at least) we get
> this error:
>
> drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_mono.c:81: error: logo_linux_mono causes a section type conflict
>
> This was introduced by commit ae52bb2384f721562f15f719de1acb8e934733cb
> ("fbdev: move logo externs to header file"). This is a partial revert
> of that commit sufficient to not hit the compiler bug.
>
We're seeing similar issues with 4.3 on parisc (the case I saw today was
in fs/nfs/nfsroot.c...) Any ideas on the actual culprit or is it just
gcc being unfriendly?
regards, Kyle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-23 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-22 8:04 [PATCH] fbdev: work around old compiler bug Stephen Rothwell
2009-06-22 8:34 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-06-22 9:41 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-23 5:44 ` [PATCH v2] " Stephen Rothwell
2009-06-23 16:45 ` Kyle McMartin [this message]
2009-06-23 19:23 ` Sam Ravnborg
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