Re: 2.4.20pre11aa1

[Srihari Vijayaraghavan <harisri@bigpond.com>]

Hello Andrea,

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> try to apply all the scheduler related patches:
>
> 10_sched-o1-hyperthreading-3  20_apm-o1-sched-1  20_sched-o1-fixes-5
> 21_o1-A4-aa-1 20_rcu-poll-7

OK.

I have applied the patches 0* and the following patches in this order:
10_sched-o1-hyperthreading-3
20_apm-o1-sched-1
20_rcu-poll-7
20_sched-o1-fixes-5
21_o1-A4-aa-1

The resulting kernel is very stable and it does not crash.

Then I tried patches [01]* and the extra patches (20_apm-o1-sched-1,
20_rcu-poll-7, 20_sched-o1-fixes-5, 21_o1-A4-aa-1), I couldn't compile
the kernel.

Here is the current std_err:

inode.c:1468: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
In file included from ide.c:149:
/usr/src/01/include/linux/ide.h:333:16: warning: ISO C requires
whitespace after the macro name
ide.c: In function `init_hwif_data':
ide.c:270: `ide_disk' undeclared (first use in this function)
ide.c:270: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
ide.c:270: for each function it appears in.)
ide.c: In function `ide_geninit':
ide.c:639: `ide_disk' undeclared (first use in this function)
ide.c: In function `do_reset1':
ide.c:791: `ide_disk' undeclared (first use in this function)
ide.c: In function `ide_dump_status':
ide.c:973: `ide_disk' undeclared (first use in this function)
ide.c: In function `try_to_flush_leftover_data':
ide.c:1034: `ide_disk' undeclared (first use in this function)
ide.c: In function `ide_error':
ide.c:1071: `ide_disk' undeclared (first use in this function)
ide.c: In function `start_request':
ide.c:1373: `ide_disk' undeclared (first use in this function)
ide.c: In function `ide_open':
ide.c:2119: `ide_disk' undeclared (first use in this function)
ide.c: In function `ide_reinit_drive':
ide.c:2768: `ide_disk' undeclared (first use in this function)
ide.c: In function `ide_ioctl':
ide.c:2842: `ide_disk' undeclared (first use in this function)
ide.c: In function `ide_setup':
ide.c:3383: `ide_disk' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[3]: *** [ide.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_subdir_ide] Error 2
make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:1014: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1091: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1176: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1255: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1271: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1281: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1349: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1364: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1375: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1874: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
{standard input}:1960: Warning: indirect lcall without `*'

Thanks.
-- 
Hari
harisri@bigpond.com