From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262021AbULVS16 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:27:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262000AbULVS1l (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:27:41 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:21425 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262011AbULVSZx (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:25:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:25:44 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Regis Leclerc Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel-source bug for sparc architecture Message-ID: <20041222182544.GV771@holomorphy.com> References: <1103739302.21581.11.camel@smaug.safetyhost.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1103739302.21581.11.camel@smaug.safetyhost.net> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:15:02PM +0100, Regis Leclerc wrote: > I am compiling kernel 2.6.9 on a sparc32 architecture (SUN4C) with > GCC3.3.4, and found that drivers/video/bw2.c has a compilation problem > on line 389. > There is a call that passes &options as 2nd argument, but the "options" > variable isn't defined anywhere. > In drivers/video/cg6.c there is the same kind of call, but it passes > NULL instead of &options, so I altered bw2.c to replace &options with > NULL, so the compilation can go on (it's a part of the make image part). > I am not a specialist of video drivers on sparc32 (I have a CG6, > anyway), but I'm reporting this compilation problem so a true specialist > of this part of the code can raise an eyebrow on it. I've seen a patch for that, but wasn't sure if I should take on a video driver as it's outside of arch/sparc/. If it's not already merged, it will be in a sparc32 release I'll announce later on today. -- wli