From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751014AbVLZFAL (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:00:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751016AbVLZFAL (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:00:11 -0500 Received: from host7-111.pool8255.interbusiness.it ([82.55.111.7]:30954 "EHLO alpt.dyndns.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751014AbVLZFAK (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:00:10 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 06:04:01 +0100 From: Alpt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.14 assembler compilation error Message-ID: <20051226050400.GA20686@nihil> References: <20051224134753.GA19710@nihil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051224134753.GA19710@nihil> User-Agent: hahaSRY Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 02:47:53PM +0100, : ~> AS arch/i386/kernel/head.o ~> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: Assembler messages: ~> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:114: Error: no such instruction: `static inline void ptep_mkdirty(pte_t *ptep)' ~> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:115: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `{' ~> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:116: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic ~> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:117: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic ~> include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:118: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `}' ~> make[1]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/head.o] Error 1 ~> make: *** [arch/i386/kernel] Error 2 It is compiling \o/ The function ptep_mkdirty doesn't exist at all! A quick grep -r verifies that. I re-downloaded the kernel tarball and now it is working. For some reasons the tarball I was using (dwloaded from kernel.org) got corrupted, but since I was getting an error on ptep_mkdirty(), I didn't notice it. I thought of ptep_mkdirty as ptep_make_dirty. Damn, the tarball was dirty! This is one more reason to begin to learn all the kernel source code. Well, time to reboot. -- :wq! "I don't know nothing" The One Who reached the Thinking Matter '.' [ Alpt --- Freaknet Medialab ] [ GPG Key ID 441CF0EE ] [ Key fingerprint = 8B02 26E8 831A 7BB9 81A9 5277 BFF8 037E 441C F0EE ]