Re: 2.6.8-rc2-mm1: DVB: "errno" undefined

Adrian Bunk
2004-07-29T23:24:45Z

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:44:13AM +0200, Kenneth Aafløy wrote:
> On Thursday 29 July 2004 23:27, you wrote:
> > I'm getting the following errors when trying to compile 2.6.8-rc2-mm1 as
> > modular as possible (using gcc 2.95):
> [snip]
> > *** Warning: "errno" [drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda1004x.ko] undefined!
> > *** Warning: "errno" [drivers/media/dvb/frontends/sp887x.ko] undefined!
> > *** Warning: "errno" [drivers/media/dvb/frontends/alps_tdlb7.ko] undefined!
> [snip]
>
> This is still not fixed because we (linuxtv.org) have not submitted the
> changes necessary following this thread:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108344912617115&w=2
>
> This is about firmware loading in those modules, and we are working on
> converting those modules to i2c_kernel to take advantage of firmware_class.
>
> Could the offending modules be marked as broken or something untill
> linuxtv-dvb can test and submit the dvb frontend updates, which should be
> sometime soon, but probably not in time for 2.6.8?

The removal of errno from this three drivers is currently only in -mm.

So unless someone forwards them (they were sent by Andi Kleen as gcc 3.5
build fixes, but he apparently didn't test a modular build) to Linus
which hopefully won't happen before the affected modules are properly
fixed, Linus' tree isn't affected.

> Kenneth

cu
Adrian

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